Leabhar Dun Eimire: Earrach 1905. IE TCD MS 11535/7/3

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Authors: Mounsell, Kitty MacCormack, Lionel Johnson, Cáitlín, Willis, Dun Emer Press, Samuel Ferguson, Ellen McCabe, Kitty MacCormack, Dun Emer Industries, Máire, John Masefield
+25 more Jack B. Yeats, Máire Ní Siubhlaigh, W. B. Yeats, Christina Byrne, Esther Ryan, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Catía Ní Cormac, Mary Cottenham Yeats, Catía Ní Cormac, Rebecca Fanning, Ruth Pollexfen, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, Rosie Gallagher, Evelyn Gleeson, Margery Gallagher, The Visitor, Margaret McCabe, Rosie Gallagher, Christina Fanning, Ulster, An Phuirín Dut, Beatrice Cassidy, Padraic Colum, Mary Little, Eileen Colum
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Digitised version of IE TCD MS 11535/7/3, a bound volume of Leabhar Dún Éimire: Earrach 1905, an trear chuid, edited by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Contents: Folio i r: Voting list for best story or poem, and best painting. -- Folio ii v-iii r: Staff list: "Weavers: Evelyn Gleeson, Margery Gallagher, Rosie Gallagher, Katie Dempsey, Christina Byrne, Bridie MacLoughlin, Lily Clarke, Christina Fanning, Sissy Burke, Annie Victory, Frances Cassidy. Embroiderers: Lily Yeats, Jane Gill, Margaret McCabe, Ellen McCabe, Mary Little, Máire Walker, Eileen Colm. Printers: E.C. Yeats, Essie Ryan, Beatrice Cassidy." -- Folio v rv: Cotents list. -- Folio vii v: Sketch of daffodils. -- Folio viii r-: Photograph of the Dun Emer embroiderers at work. -- Folio viii v: Sketch by Evelyn Gleeson of a lady sitting in an armchair reading, above a poem by W.B. Yeats, "When You Are Old", first lines "When you are old and grey, and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down a book And slowly read and dream..." -- Page 1: Two photographs, one of "The Meadow", designed by E.C. Yeats, and worked by Lily Yeats, and the other of "St. Brendan", designed by Mrs. Willis, and worked by Katie Dempsey. -- Page 2: Photograph of the members of the Dun Emer Guild and Dun Emer Industries, 1905. -- Page 3: Two photographs of Dun Emer Industries staff at work, one of the printers, and one of the embroiderers. -- Page 4: Two photographs, one of Dun Emer Industries weavers at work, and one of a rug designed by Miss Gleeson and worked by Rosie Gallagher. -- Page 5: Three photographs, one of Dun Emer embroidery and two of religious banners. -- Page 6: Two photographs, one of Dun Emer Industries weavers at work, and one of a some embroidery. -- Page 7: Two Jack B. Yeats bookplates, "Caoimhghín ODubhthaigh" (black & white; see also page 37 for a colour version), and "Tar chugham a chroidhe ghil tar chugham a chroidhe tá néalta dúbha ar Árd na ríogh ua dubhda" - all In Copyright: © Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All Rights Reserved, DACS London / IVARO Dublin, 2026. -- Page 8: Dun Emer Press Circular, January 1905. Includes two illustrations (one a printer's or owner's device? "Carnett"?). -- Page 9: Jack B. Yeats print depicting two well-dressed women on a shoreline, a row boat and ship in the distance: "They are altered girls in Irrul now; 'tis proud they're grown and high, With their hair-bags and their top-knots, for I pass their buckles by" - In Copyright: © Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All Rights Reserved, DACS London / IVARO Dublin, 2026. -- Page 10: Two bookplates, one designed for Josephine Webb and one by and for Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Page 11-18: Story, "A Christmas Tale". -- Page 19: Design "to fill a square" by Beattie Cassidy. -- Page 20-23: Nair, plus part of a border design by Ellen McCabe. -- Page 24: Bookplates, one by Jack B. Yeats, "Lily Yeats Her Book", In Copyright: © Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All Rights Reserved, DACS London / IVARO Dublin, 2026, and one designed by Miss Mounsell. -- Page 25: Artwork by Mary Cottenham Yeats depicting four women to illustrate "The Thorn Bush". -- Page 26-29: Poem, "The Thorn Bush" by Sir Samuel Ferguson. -- Page 30: Drawing of privet by Rosie Gallagher. -- Page 31: design for a bowl by Chrissie Byrne. -- Page 32: Design to fill a triangle by Rebecca Fanning. -- Page 33: Artwork of beech leaes by Essie Ryan. -- Page 34-35: Story in Irish, "Mise agus na Sídheoga", illustrated by Ruth Pollexfen. -- Page 35: Illustration by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, "Evening". -- Page 36: Illustration, "Honesty", by Máire ní Siubhlaigh. -- Page 37: Drawing by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, "Evening on Ticknock", and a Jack B. Yeats bookplate, "Caoimhghín ODubhthaigh" (colour; In Copyright: © Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All Rights Reserved, DACS London / IVARO Dublin, 2026; see also page 7 for a black & white version, also In Copyright: © Estate of Jack B. Yeats. All Rights Reserved, DACS London / IVARO Dublin, 2026). -- Page 38-40: The Dun Emer Fancy Dress Party, by "The Visitor"; illustrated. -- Page 41: Poem, with illustration, "Look, look, o little Mother!". -- Page 42: Poem, "An Old Woman of the Roads" by Padraic Colum. -- Page 43: Artwork of a landscape by Ruth Pollexfen. -- Page 45: Artwork by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, "Earrach". -- Page 46: "A Great Occurance" by Rebeccah Nic [?]. -- Page 47-48: Poems, "Ode to a Cow" and "To Sally" by Ulster; illustrated by Margaret McCabe. -- Page 49: Designs by Ellen McCabe and Margaret McCabe. -- Page 50-51: Poem, "Lunch Hour". Page 52: Sketch of wallflowers by Essie Ryan. -- Page 53: Design of flowers in a basket by Essie Ryan. -- Page 54: Story in English, "The Mermaid and the Fishermen"; picture of boats at the end; other illustrations by Essie Ryan? -- Page 57: Sketch of cornflowers by Essie Ryan. -- Page 58-59: Riddles and puzzles by "An Phuirín Dut". -- Page 60: "Chamógeacht le Grá", a piece on camogie in English by Christina Fanning. -- Page 61: Design of flowers by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. -- Page 62-63: Story in English, "Clever Tom" -- Page 63: Drawing of snowdrops by Cáitlín. -- Page 64-67: Story in English, "Little Nelly" by Máire. -- Page 68-69: Story in English, "The Evening of December First". -- Page 69: Illustration of bare trees in a wooded area by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. -- Page 70-71: Story in English, "A Clever Trick". -- Page 72: Poem, "April" by Catía ní Cormac [=Kitty MacCormack], 4/4/1905. -- Page 73-74: Two pages taken from "Twenty One Poems" by Lionel Johnson, printed by the Dun Emer Press. -- Page 75: Two designs, one by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats of a lakeside view, and one by Eileen Colum of violets. -- Page 76: Lines by J. Masefield "In a letter to the Editor". -- Page 77: Illustration of tulips by Margaret McCabe. -- Page 78: Two designs of flowers, one by Mary Little. -- Page 79: Illustration of wallflowers by Margery Gallagher. -- Page 80: Illustration of violets by Beattie Cassidy. -- Page 81-85: Notes and news of Dun Emer. -- Page 86-87: "Song of the Printers".

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Libraries Manuscripts and Books Crafts Textile and Design Folklore Mythology and Literature Studies

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Digital Collections (East Carolina University)
Publication date
3 March 2026
Language
EN