Junior Special Collection
Collection Dates: [c1820-2007]
Extent: 443 items
Provenance: Publications acquired and deposited in St Patrick’s College, Dublin, since 1875.
There are 443 books in the collection, spanning Maria Edgeworth's The Parent's Assistant, or Stories for Children Vol 1 and 2 (1829), to Duncan Crosbie's Life in an Irish Castle: the Journal of a 17th Century Castle in Times of Peace and War (2007).
Tiny nonsense stories: 12 story books. (Kunhardt, Dorothy, 1901-1979. Williams, Garth, illustrator. C1949)
The Easter Bunny. From Tiny nonsense stories : 12 story books
The collection includes a number of rare works from the nineteenth century by authors such as Charles Kingsley, Lewis Carroll, and Captain Mayne Reid.
Irish writers such as Sineád de Valera and Eileen O'Faoláin are also represented, with the majority of de Valera’s publications in Irish. Also contained are some unique and important texts from the beginning of the twentieth century, relating to the Irish Literary Revival, including publications by Alice Furlong, A. Ruby Jackson, Charlotte Dease, and John Hannon.
The Flahertys of Aran (Lehman, Agnes C. 1940)
The cottage in the bog (Laverty, Maura ; Coghlan, Eileen. N.d)
The Junior Special collection includes a selection of titles from our Ladybird Collection.
A selection of these titles is currently on display in the Cregan Library Drumcondra.
Exhibition Poster
A display of some of the educational and non-fictional titles published by Ladybird
A display of fiction titles from the Ladybird collection, including Irish language editions of the Well Loved Tales series
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