Proclaiming the moment at which the Irish state was born...

A COPY of the most important document in the history of the Irish nation, the Proclamation of Independence printed at Liberty Hall, on Easter Sunday, 1916, realised £140,000 at Sotheby’s on December 16.

Some 2500 copies were to have been produced, but a shortage of paper and type meant that the first p…

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