The Easter 1916 Irish flag that flew over the GPO during the Easter Rising failed to sell at a Bloomsbury Auctioneers Irish sale in New York on March 23 2010 when it was withdrawn at $400,000, a full $100,000 under its reserve price. The focal point of the 70-lot Irish Salewas the Tricolour flag. This unique icon of the Irish Revolution and the only recorded full sized tricolor of the 1916 Rising in existence.
Bloomsbury New York held the auction in conjunction with Whyte’s Auctioneers.

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Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, announces The Irish Sale which will be held in its Manhattan rooms on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10am. The sale is held in conjunction with Whyte’s, Ireland’s premier auction house for Irish art and collectibles.
The focal point of the 70-lot Irish Sale is the Tricolour flag. This unique icon of the Irish Revolution and the only recorded full sized tricolor of the 1916 Rising in existence, is of the utmost rarity and importance (lot 26). …

The sale of a 4.6 per cent 2016 bond and a 4.5 per cent 2020 bond on March 16th is expected to raise between €1 billion and €1.5 billion.
“At its last monthly competitive auction in February, the NTMA raised €1.5bn, hitting the top of its target range at lower yields than in recent auctions in a sign that investors favoured Ireland’s debt over other weaker Euroland states,” said Bloxham’s chief economist Alan McQuaid.
“Purely on a funding perspective alone, Ireland is in better shape than the other ‘peripheral’ euro zone bond …

A Chinese blue and white vase started with a bid of €50 before two collectors started a bidding war.
Auction visitors at Sheppards Irish Auction House in County Laios, Ireland, watched as the vase was eventually sold for €110,000.
Richard Peters, 48, who runs an antiques company in Kensington, was the eventual buyer after outbidding a dealer who had flown in from Beijing, China, for the auction.
Mr Peters, who is adamant the vase was ‘made for the personal collection of Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century’, said: ‘I got a bargain!
‘The …