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Sasko Lazarov via Rolling News

Items from Clerys, Shelbourne Hotel and iconic Celtic Tiger nightclubs going under the hammer

A host of items from Howl at the Moon and the Residence Club are to be sold off.

A HOST OF treasures from the iconic nightspots of the Celtic Tiger era – Howl at the Moon and the Residence Club – are to be sold in Ireland’s largest-ever interiors auction next month.

The sale at The Heritage Hotel, Laois, on 5 and 6 March will also feature a host of documentation from Clerys, including the original cheques from the sale of shares in the historic department store building.

The 3,000-piece auction includes the entire contents of the exclusive Residence private members club on St Stephen’s Green – bars, mirrors, glassware and every item of their classic-styled furniture – along with refurbished furniture from the iconic Shelbourne Hotel.

Also on sale will be the giant chandeliers and Game of Thrones-style bronze doors from Dublin’s Howl at the Moon nightclub.

The stock is being sold by Cavan’s Victor Mee Actions Ltd in partnership with Niall Mullen.

“The Clerys collection is of immense interest, as along with Denis Guiney’s original £241,000 cheque to purchase the entire share capital of Cleary and Company in 1941, it includes old photographs, office journals and store record book going back 150 years,” Mullen said.

On the quirky side of items up for auction is a restored original Irish phone box from Westmeath, along with over 200 items of Irish folk and pub memorabilia.

Viewings of the interiors sale take place in the Golf Course of the Heritage Hotel, Killenard on 2 to 4 March, from 2pm to 6pm each day.

The auction itself takes place on 5 and 6 March.

“Everything must go and there is no reserve,” Mullen said.

The full catalogue of lots can be viewed in advance online here.

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    Mute Michael
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    Apr 10th 2014, 8:48 AM

    That was cheap. If we had arranged and paid no doubt it would have been 2.5 million.

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    Mute winding_down
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    Apr 10th 2014, 8:49 AM

    $7.9 million overall? Should have led with that!! Great for the Irish economy all the same – they should run another “Gathering” for politicians and Presidents!

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    Apr 10th 2014, 8:53 AM

    And this is a scandal in the States? This happens on a daily basis here! We’re used to it, we’ve come to accept it as the norm!

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    Mute Frank O'Connor
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    Apr 10th 2014, 8:52 AM

    Judging by the students reactions below her it looks like Malia is letting off some ripper of a fart.

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    Apr 10th 2014, 9:19 AM

    And never have two young girls been so bored in their lives!

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    Mute Drew
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    Apr 10th 2014, 9:32 AM

    I wonder how many people invite guests to their house and total up what it cost to host them when they leave…

    That’s 21c of toilet paper
    €2.30 of electricity
    €6 breakfast
    80c milk and a tea bag
    €1.50 for that glass you broke……

    Don’t worry I don’t expect you to pay this I’m just making sure you and the whole world knows what my hospitality has cost me.

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    Mute Mike Myers
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    Apr 10th 2014, 8:54 AM

    And where did all that money go seeing as Ireland is in such a ‘bad state’ ?
    The culchies in the towns where he visited still have their communion money for fecks sake. No chance of that money being recirculated

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    Apr 10th 2014, 10:16 AM

    Damn culchies. Stopping us all from being rich.

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    Apr 10th 2014, 9:19 AM

    The book Animal Farm by George Orewell comes to my mind when I read about Obama admin and their extravagant lifestyles on US tax payers money.

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    Apr 10th 2014, 12:08 PM

    During a recent trip to China the first family and their staff of about 70 stayed in the presidential suite at the Westin Chaoyang Hotel, which USA Today reports costs about $8,400 a night. Clearly the elite live by a different standard and have for a long time. Obama sure knows how to spend taxpayers money.

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    Apr 10th 2014, 1:01 PM

    Yes he does, 100′s of millions on vacations, 4000 calorie state dinners, the best of everything including medical. Meanwhile the little people struggle with multiple part time jobs, poor quality high cost Obama care and young people not being able to find work after college. But he’s on their side right? What a delusion.

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    Apr 10th 2014, 3:39 PM

    It won’t be too long before Obama will introduce in special powers to ban the very books that were written to demonize Soviet Russia. The tables have turned 180° and Now the United States has become the very same totalitarian Communist state.

    http://s30.postimg.org/ojf3c5101/Obamamarks.jpg

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    Apr 10th 2014, 9:15 AM

    The trip this week for our little president
    To the uk prob will cost us a million

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    Apr 10th 2014, 10:46 AM

    It’s a state visit, the host country pays.

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    Apr 10th 2014, 9:01 AM

    The gathering or the shakedown with guilt of the diaspora as we all knew it to be.

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    Apr 10th 2014, 10:23 AM

    And the book ” One flew over the cuckoos nest” comes to mind when I read some of these comments

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    Apr 10th 2014, 10:17 AM

    Mike ya must be a dub

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    Apr 10th 2014, 10:27 AM

    And the Govt will still tell you how great they are come the next election

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