Leabhar Dun Eimire: Earrach 1905. IE TCD MS 11535/7/3
Abstract
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".
Fields of Study & Subjects
Libraries
Manuscripts
and Books
Crafts
Textile
and Design
Folklore
Mythology
and Literature Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Digital Collections (East Carolina University)
- Publication date
- 3 March 2026
- Language
- EN