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Collection Highlights Historical Postcard Collection We hold an extensive collection of vintage postcards. Included in these are images of some of the County’s most significant landmarks and monuments, including the Round Tower in Clondalkin and the popular holiday destination of the Spa Hotel in Lucan. The postcards can be on Source. Katharine Tynan Collection Katharine Tynan (1861 – 1931) is a major literary figure associated with South Dublin County. She was the fourth daughter of Andrew C. Tynan, Whitehall, Clondalkin, and at the age of seventeen published her first book of verse. This was followed two years later by a novel. She was one of a band of Irish writers resident in London in the 1880s who combined to make the Irish Literary Movement. She had a deep interest in Irish mythology and was closely involved in the Celtic revival. She was a close friend of W.B. Yeats who was a frequent visitor to Whitehall. Her prolific output included 18 volumes of poetry, 105 novels and 38 other miscellaneous books which include five volumes of autobiography. The County Library, Tallaght holds an almost complete collection of Katharine Tynan’s works. Pearse Collection Patrick Pearse, revolutionary and educationalist, established St. Enda’s School in 1908. It was at first located in Ranelagh but later moved to Rathfarnham, where it now houses the Pearse Museum. The school was intended as a model for a new Irish education system, sympathetic to the Irish language, and with a strong emphasis on nationalism, in order to advance Pearse’s goal of an Ireland "not free merely but Gaelic as well”. Pearse wrote stories, essays and poems in Irish and English and became an exponent of the notion of 'blood sacrifice' in order to redeem Ireland's freedom. The County Library holds a comprehensive collection of Pearse’s writings, as well as material relating to St. Enda’s and the Pearse family.
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Buaicphointí an Cnuasaigh Bailiúchán Chártaí Poist Stairiúla Tá bailiúchán fair sing de chártaí poist seanré againn. Ina measc tá íomhánna de shéadchomharthaí agus treoirmharcanna suntasacha an Chontae, lena n-áirítear an Clogtheach i gCluain Dolcáin agus an tÓstán Spa i Leamhcán a raibh an-tóir ar do laethanta saoire.Is féidir na cártaí poist a fheiceáil ag www.southdublinimages.ie Bailiúchán Katharine Tynan Is pearsa mór le rá i gcúrsaí liteartha Chontae Átha Cliath Theas í Katharine Tynan (1861 – 1931). Ba í an ceathrú iníon de chuid Andrew C. Tynan í as an Halla Bán, Cluain Dolcáin, agus in aois seacht mbliana déag d’fhoilsigh sí a céad leabhar véarsaíochta. D’fhoilsigh sí úrscéal dhá bhliain ina dhiaidh sin. Bhí sí ar dhuine de ghrúpa scríbhneoirí Éireannacha a bhí ina gcónaí i Londain sna 1880idí a tháinig le chéile chun Gluaiseacht Liteartha na hÉireann a thosú. Bhí suim dhomhain aici i miotaseolaíocht na hÉireann agus bhí dlúthbhaint aici leis an athbheochan Ceilteach. Ba cara mór í le W.B. Yeats a tháinig ar cuairt go minic ar an Halla Bán. Áiríodh i measc a haschur torthúil 18 leabhar filíochta, 105 úrscéal agus 38 leabhar eile ilghnéitheacha ina bhfuil cúig imleabhar de dhírbheathaisnéis. Tá beagnach sraith iomlán d’oibreacha Katharine Tynan ar fáil ag Leabharlann an Chontae, Tamhlacht. Bailiúchán an Phiarsaigh Bhunaigh Pádraig Mac Piarais, réabhlóideach agus oideachasóir, Scoil Éanna i 1908. Bhí sí suite ó thús i Raghnallach ach bogadh ansin go Ráth Fearnáin í, áit a bhfuil Músaem an Phiarsaigh anois. Bhí sé i gceist go mbeadh an scoil ina samhail do chóras nua oideachais in Éirinn, báúil don Ghaeilge, agus béim láidir ar náisiúnachas, chun aidhm an Phiarsaigh a chur chun cinn go mbeadh Éire "ní hamháin saor ach Gaelach chomh maith". Scríobh Mac Piarais scéalta, aistí agus dánta i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla agus bhí sé ina shampla de nóisean an ‘íobairt fola’ chun saoirse na hÉireann a shlánú. Tá bailiúchán cuimsitheach de scríbhinní an Phiarsaigh ag Leabharlann an Chontae, chomh maith le hábhair a bhaineann le Scoil Éanna agus teaghlach Mhic Phiarais.