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Christmas card from Eimhir Ní Nadall to Eamon de Valera, who was imprisoned in Lewes Jail, December 1917.

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Christmas card from Mabel FitzGerald to Eamon de Valera, who was imprisoned in Lewes Jail, December 1917.

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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).

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Christmas card from 'Brian' to Eamon de Valara, who was imprisoned in Lewes Jail, December 1917.

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Listen as Patrick Fortune describes the singing of carols around the crib on Christmas Eve, as candles flickered in the front windows of every house in the locality https://t.co/JxMPFIVs5A

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Everything to clothe your ‘boy’ for the New Year. From Lady of the house, Christmas edition 1911.

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'And where there'd be little children in the house [they'd] bring home little playthings for them...' Listen as Bill Egan describes the bringing home of Christmas fare in the days of his youth https://t.co/euFFET7ASQ

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

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

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What's behind window for today's With our theme we particularly like this cover snap (top) showing a snippet of a song collected by Séamus Ennis from Neainín Mháire Ní Ghríofa in in 1944

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

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Kicking off our Advent calendar this year: a selection of Christmas cards sent to Eamon de Valera while he was in prison in England in December 1916.

These are also referred to in our online exhibition The Finest Men Alive https://t.co/ttOUHronPA

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