Auction next month also includes Dr Noel Browne’s copy of the 1916 Proclamation with a guide price of up to €150,000
It is one of a number of historical GAA items listed in a sale to take place at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers in Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny, on October 1 and 2.
The ticket is described in the guide as: “A memento of the historical retaliations against innocent and unarmed spectators as a result of Michael Collins’s early morning raids on British agents in Dublin, wherein 14 officers were executed by his squad. It was a dark day in Irish sporting history.”
In the massacre at Croke Park on November 21, 1920, British forces opened fire on a crowd attending a football match between Tipperary and Dublin, killing 14 people.
The match programme for the 1913 All-Ireland hurling final
It was an act of retaliation by the crown forces for an IRA operation mounted earlier that day, when the IRA carried out a series of targeted assassinations of British intelligence officers.
George Fonsie Mealy, the auction house’s director, said Bloody Sunday was “a remarkable occasion and fateful day, in both Irish and GAA history”.
Also up for sale will be a copy of the rare 1913 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Final programme, which was produced for what was the first ever 15-a-side final.
A ticket to the infamous Tipperary v Dublin match is up for auction
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In the 1913 final, held at the GAA’s newly acquired sportsground in Dublin, which would become Croke Park, Kilkenny overcame Tipperary to become the first team to win three titles in a row. Kilkenny clinched the title by 2-4 to 1-2. The programme has an estimate of up to €3,000.
One of only 1,000 copies of the original 1916 Proclamation is included in the auction. The copy was gifted to the late health minister Dr Noel Browne, and has a guide price of €100,000 to €150,000.
Other lots include 1924 All-Ireland and Leinster senior hurling winners medals, presented to Billy Bannin of Dublin. The pair are valued at up to €4,000.
Noel Browne’s copy of the Proclamation is guiding between €100,000 and €150,000
There is also a unique 18-carat gold medal presented to Timothy O’Brien, a Dublin merchant and MP and member of the well-known bakery firm Johnston, Mooney and O’Brien.
It was given to him by Queen Victoria in 1846 during the Famine for his “exertions in the manufacture of bread from Indian corn, which have contributed materially to its introduction as a substitute for potatoes among the people of Ireland”.
It has an estimate of €10,000 to €15,000.
Harry Clarke’s ‘The Lady of the Decoration’
Dublin auction house Adams is showcasing the sale of three pieces by Harry Clarke, who was internationally acclaimed for his stained-glass work.
The auction, on Wednesday, features pen and ink watercolours.
One piece, ‘The Lady of the Decoration’, signed and dated 1914, has an estimate of between €60,000 and €80,000.
A smaller work by Clarke titled ‘Faust’, created between 1924 and 1925, has a guide price of up to €60,000.