[Christmas card] Smuainte ceannra
[Fergus O'Connor].
[graphic].
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| Summary: | Christmas card featuring the image of a banner on which is depicted the Irish Volunteers badge (designed in 1913 by Eoin MacNeill) consisting of a sunburst [An Gal Gréine], surmounted by an 8-pointed star, bearing the letters "FF" in Cló Gaelach encircled by a representation of an ancient warrior's sword belt. Ribbons of green white and orange also decorate the banner and which is printed in Cló Gaelach is "Smuainte ceannra" [which roughly translates from Irish as "Kind thoughts" in English]. Text inside card printed in black font in Cló Gaelach with verses in English. Printed on verso of card is a gold harp with the words "Éire go brat" on a ribbon around the harp. Underneath this is printed: "Published by Fergus O'Connor, Dublin". |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Text printed on card in Cló Gaelach and English. |
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Dublin :
Fergus O'Connor,
[n.d., between ca. 1918 and 1924?].
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Fergus O'Connor was a Dublin publisher, who published Sean O'Casey's early writings and produced nationalist postcards and related material. Following the Easter Rising he was imprisoned in Lewes prison. Physical description: 1 card (1 sheet, folded into [4] pp.) : col. ill., 11.4 x 7.4 cm.. more |
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EPH A1314 |
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Ephemera |
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