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Sat 04 Apr 2007When Independence comes at a very high priceThe second year of the auction of Irish Independence-era memorabilia fetched 21st-century prices, writes Shane Hegarty.Five minutes into the evening session at Tuesday's Independence auction, Tom Clarke's Irish Volunteer membership card came up, and the assembled crowd was given an early idea of how they should treat the catalogue prices.