Christmas - Unique and Distinctive

Advent 2024: 3 December

Today’s post is a Christmas postcard featuring two dogs from the Allott Papers

Today’s images features a Christmas card from the Limerick Papers

For this year’s Advent Calendar, we hope you enjoy this selection of festive findings from […]

A whistle-stop tour of Christmas-time entertainment from the National Dance Archive of Ireland (NDAI)

Madonna and Child by Rosemarie Cockayne, 1998

Santa Claus visits children during a Christmas party, 1945

Christmas card from Daphne du Maurier, early 20th century

Flyer for a performance of ‘Vanity Fair’, London, 1962

Christmas card to the Daly Family, 1915

Staff at Shannon Airport, Christmas 1958

Illustrated sample menu from Dunraven Castle, Christmas 1847

Colourful Christmas tree, painted by ballet dancer Rosemarie Cockayne

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