Advent 2025: 19 December

Todays post features two portraits of high fashion from The Armstrong Collection.

The collection contains some 50,000 items, including over 13,000 photographs, making it one of the largest of the archival collections in the Glucksman Library. The documents encompass 350 years of family history of the Armstrongs of Moyaliffe Castle, County Tipperary, and the related families of Maude of Lenaghan Park, County Fermanagh, and Kemmis of Ballinacor, County Wicklow.

You can read more about them in our online exhibition, It’s A Long Way to Tipperary.

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Mounted studio portrait of Ione Armstrong in a dark dress, string of dark pearls and a black hairband, 1918 (P6A/143)

 

Mounted full-length studio portrait of Rosalie Armstrong seated in a carved armchair and wearing a dark evening dress, c.1920 (P6A/55)

 

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