UCD Special Collectionsさんのイラストまとめ

Who's this handsome fellow?! A lithograph after a drawing by James Clark Ross (1800-62) this snowy arctic fox appears in Ross's 'A voyage of discovery and research in the southern and Antarctic regions, during the years 1839-43' (London: 1847). #UCDAdvent

William Butler Yeats was born #OTD, 13 June 1865. Works by the poet and dramatist can be found across our holdings, but a perennial favourite is this inscribed copy of 'Into the Seven Woods' from the Curran/Laird collection. Happy Birthday, WBY!

Our first #advent tweet also forms our seasonal banner. ‘Kind thoughts’, a #ChristmasCard addressed to a Sister at the Convent of Mercy, #Ennis #CoClare. Dated #ChristmasEve 1903. #UpliftingAdvent

#DunbrodyAbbey Co. #Wexford. Founded by Herve de Montmorency in 1170 and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1536. As it is today, and from an 18th cent. watercolour from Beranger Collection. https://t.co/6sCALoQ3Bg This image courtesy of @UCDDigital

Cover of Austin Clarke’s own copy of ‘The Sun Dances at #Easter’ (1952), one of his ‘Prose romances’ and once proscribed under the #Censorship of Literature Act. From the Poetry Ireland/Austin Clarke Collection. #bannedbooks

#HoHoHo, but #SantaClaus is not fooled by this type of trickery. From St. Nicholas, Dec. 1887, Manning Children’s Collection #UCDadvent

And on Christmas Eve true vows are plighted / Under the #mistletoe ’. From ‘Young England’, 1890, John Manning Collection. #UCDadvent #ChristmasCards

In this series of cards from ca. 1870 #Victorian publisher Marcus & Ward combined a Christmas greeting with supposed insights into the Irish temperament. Caricatures but colourful #UCDadvent #begorrah