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Date Posted: Tue, Apr 17 2007, 13:48:13 PDT
Author: Observer
Subject: Letter by Padraig Pearse sold to National Museum!

One of the last letters written by 1916 leader Commandant Padraig Pearse has been sold to the Irish National Museum for an undisclosed sum.

The letter, written in Kilmainham Jail only hours before Pearse's execution by a British army firing squad, was one of hundreds of Easter Rising-related items due to go up for auction this evening.

However, the National Museum in Dublin has stepped in to buy the document before it could go under hammer.

The auctioneers have hinted that it may have been sold for less than the expected auction price of between 80,000 and 100,000 Euro.

Sinn Fein meanwhile, has mounted a protest outside the auction house in Dublin calling on the government to ensure that the rest of the artefacts remain in state hands.

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