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More historical artefacts may be lost to Ireland with the sale of seventeen rare books and a collection of art by All Hallows College, Drumcondra, a former Catholic seminary. One book, for example, a fifteenth-century Flemish Book of Hours, is valued at ?60,000. The paintings are mainly portraits of clerical dignitaries from the nineteenth and ... Read more

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