Card, greetings
Collection object
1993.0390
Cover H. 6.8 W. 11.1 Inside H. 6.8 W. 10.0
Christmas Card, home made. Two pieces of thick card sewn together at spine; around stitching is a green thread which holds a folded card inside the covers. Front cover printed in colour "Wishes Galore, Gap of Dunloe- Killarney"; picture of man on side car with two female passengers, driving along road, with cottage in near and lakes of Killarney in far background, with shamrock festooned harp at left; rest of covers blank. Centre fold; left side printed in green, "A Happy Christmas./ Arm of Erin be strong! but be gentle as brave!/ And, uplifted to strike, be still ready to save!/ Let no feeling of vengeance presume to defile/ The cause of or men of the Emerald Isle./ Dr. Drennan" signed below Muiris MacCrait; right side has a watercolour of the Tricolour on pole on a bed of shamrocks and inscription "Every/ Time/ 11/11".