| Description | Two sketches, possibly of Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce, created by an artist of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1949. One of the sketches in includes the following inscription below it: 'The Optimist' and on the reverse of this same sketch there is an 'Irish Race Fixtures' provisional dates calendar for 1950 which was produced by J.M.J. Martin: Turf Accountant/Betting-Office. |