Ciara Daly

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Your friendly neighbourhood Archivist at Trinity College Dublin ✨ Street art enthusiast 🖍️ 📍Galway Girl in Dublin (she/her) 🖤🌻

Photograph of an exhibition case with a reflection of Gaia (the world)
Photograph of a lecture slide that reads 'Character is better than wealth: the enduring legacy of Michael Davitt''.
Photograph of red headed woman presenting in front of a slideshow of images of Michael Davitt
Photograph of Michael Davitt
Photograph of Michael Davitt during his imprisonment in Dartmoor.
Photograph of Brendan Kennelly holding a book
Hand-coloured photoengraved print by Dorothy Blackham titled 'Burning Kelp'. The print depicts a woman holding a rake at the water's edge raking kelp against a mountainous backdrop; two men carrying a boat also feature in the background. The text below the illustration is an Indian proverb: "Health is the greatest gift/ Contentedness the greatest riches."
Photograph of a character sheet filled in by Michael Davitt.
Photograph of a diary entry from Sunday the 25th March, 1888 that reads "My 42nd or 40th birthday, I don't care which."
Hand-coloured photoengraved Christmas card depicting two women underneath a tree, one sitting, one standing. Cottages, mountains and a lake or sea are in the background. Artwork by Anne Price - artist's monogram at bottom right. With text underneath the illustration from the "Letters of Mrs Delany" 1728: "A Fairy spot of ground to be enjoyed with a friend is preferable to the whole World without that Happiness."
Hand-coloured proof of 'The Young St. Patrick' by Anne Price. Artwork depicts a youthful Saint Patrick with Irish wolfhound; some sheep and a staff or crook are also visible. Accompanied by text taken from the writings of Saint Patrick, first lines "Now after I came to Ireland Tending the flocks was my daily occupation and constantly I used to pray in the daytime".
Photograph of the front cover of notebook MS9551 entitled 'Notes by an amateur detective Oct 1888 - March 1889.
Photograph of a page from Michael Davitt's diary from 1886 for the day he married Mary Yore.
IE TCD MS 9649/18 Studio portrait photograph of Michael Davitt sitting, with legs crossed in a Russian fur coat and hat. Photographed by E. Yexobckon, Moscow. Written on the verso: ‘(sent by N York Herald I think ED’, and: ‘En route to Russia 1904? To investigate massacre of Jews in Kischineff’.
Photograph of a poem about prisoners in Richmond Prison in 1883, written by Michael Davitt
Hand-coloured photoengraved print by Kathleen Verschoyle titled 'Saint Brigid'. Print depicts Saint Brigid, wearing a blue cloak and holding a lamb, with two lambs at her feet and trees in the background. The text below the illustration is a poem by Winifred M. Letts. The first two lines read "The Dandelion lights its spark, Lest Brigid find the wayside dark."
Hand-coloured photoengraved print by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats titled 'Mother of my yearning'. Print depicts a thatched cottage with trees and stone walls in the foreground and mountains in the background. The text below the illustration is an excerpt from a poem by Stephen Gwynn titled 'Ireland'. The first two lines of text read "Mother of my yearning, love of all my longings,/Keep me in remembrance, long leagues apart."
Photograph of a redheaded woman presenting with a Powerpoint with a photograph of Brendan Kennelly on it
Photograph of two pages from the Leabhair Dun Eimire depicting the staff
Hand-coloured photoengraved Christmas card depicting a snowy village sceneby Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Underneath the illustration is verse, in Irish, by An Craoibhín (Douglas Hyde) framed with holly berries and leaves
Photograph of a page from Michael Davitt's Diary containing a photograph of his daughter Kathleen
Photograph of a Programme for a production of Brendan Kennelly's version of Euripides’ Medea
Mirrored studio photographs of Michael Davitt at 17 years of age, seated with legs crossed and looking past the camera to his left.
Photograph of a redheaded woman sat on a pallet in front of piles of banker boxes
Michael Davitt in discussion with two Irish Parliamentary Party MPs, about the eviction of Widow Darcy in Wexford, c1887.
Photograph of Donal Fallon ambassador for the ARAIreland Explore Your Archive campaign
Photograph of Clodagh Finn speaking at the Explore Your Archive campaign launch
Photograph of Niamh Ní Charra speaking as chair of ARAIreland for the launch for the explore your archive campaign
Photograph of an outline of the 1937 Reading Room in Trinity College Dublin from 1955. Includes humerous labels for each area in the room.
Photograph of a note written by Brendan Kennelly, that reads “Delightful day in Dublin. Hailstones, rain, sun, thunder, lightning, more hailstones. With variety like that, how can poetry not come?”
Screenshot of the first page of an article in the ARA Ireland Winter Newsletter for the Brendan Kennelly Literary Archive.
Photograph of Brendan Kennelly stood in front of the Campanile in Trinity College Dublin
Photograph of a readheaded woman stood at a podium presenting with a powerpoint behind her showing the same redheaded woman sat in front of a pile of boxes
Photograph of a redheaded woman at a podium presenting on the Brendan Kennelly Literary Archive with a powerpoint slide depicting the same redheaded woman sat at a desk covered in piles of paper.
Photograph of a skeleton in a black suit with a speech bubble reading 'No Worries' with orange, yellow and red flames
Photograph of a PowerPoint slide on a projector screen reading 'Welcome to Trigger Warnings: exhibiting sensitive materials.' Behind the screen are bookcases of old books and in front are red chairs for the speakers.
Photograph of a note on the weather and inspiration taken from a Notebook of handwritten poetry for Cromwell.
Photograph of a mural depicting an Owl
Photograph of exhibition cases in the centre of The Long room of the Old Library.