Advent 2025: 19 December
Two studio portraits of high fashion from The Armstrong Collection
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Advent 2024: 18 December
A photograph of a snowy Ballinacor Estate from the Armstrong Collection
Advent 2024: 10 December
Today’s images of Lisalie and Odo Russell standing with a giant Christmas cracker
‘What my clothes cost’ Jess Armstrong’s clothes diary, 1911-1918
Diary entries that demonstrate Jess Armstrong’s upper status in society, her interest in fashion, her volunteer work and more
Advent 2023: 11 December
Today’s image from the Armstrong Collection, showing a group of avid cyclists from the turn of the 20th century
Advent 2023: 2 December
Today’s image is a detail of a map of the house and demesne of Mount Eccles, Dublin, attached to a conveyance of land. (1733)
Photographs of the 1927 wedding of Lisalie Armstrong and Lieutenant Odo Russell
Photographs of the 1927 Wedding of Lisalie Armstrong and Lieutenant Odo Russell
Documenting the successes of the horse ‘Knight of Troy’
The Knight of Troy was a special and esteemed horse from the Moyaliffe Stud, Tipperary in the 1930s
Fashionable marriage: A list of wedding gifts from the 1920s
This inventory of gifts given to Lisalie Armstrong and Odo Russel on their wedding day provide glimpses of social class, gender, and high society life in Ireland during the 1920s.
Pencil me in: Dance cards from the Armstrong Collection
Dance cards were a staple piece of both function and fashion, first making an appearance in the second half of the eighteenth century. These examples found in the Armstrong Collection.
