The Picture Postcard
A new window into Edwardian Ireland
Summary
This book draws on postcard collections to access the everyday lives of people who rarely make it into conventional historical narratives, and to make connections in an Irish context between their «small histories» and broader, well-studied discourses such as identity, nationalism, empire, modernity, emigration, tourism and the roles of women.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Edwardian Ireland and the picture postcard craze: Responses, debates and anxieties
- Chapter 2 Collections, collectors and collecting
- Chapter 3 Postcards: A medium of private and public communication
- Chapter 4 Irish identity: Empire, modernity and revival
- Chapter 5 Ireland and the wider world: Travel, emigration and tourism
- Chapter 6 A suitable hobby for young ladies: Postcards and women’s lives in Edwardian Ireland
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
Figures
Figure 1.Postcard message sent to Christina Jessop. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 2.‘Jewelled’ detail on a card. Ellen Duff’s card collection.
Figure 3.Chief ‘Stranger Horse’, Indian Chiefs – Series 1, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/117478>
Figure 5.Miss Camille Clifford, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/109418>
Figure 7.Christina Jessop, photograph, photographer unknown. Private collection.
Figure 8.Ellen Duff’s postcard album.
Figure 9.Miss Olive May, London, Empire Series. Ellen Duff’s card collection.
Figure 10.Untitled, Musterschutz, Germany. Ellen Duff’s card collection.
Figure 11.Gruss Aus Flüelen, Lautz & Jsenbeck, Darmstadt. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 12.Christmas Greetings, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Glengariff, Hildesheimer, London & Manchester. Cork Public Museum archive, postcard collection 23.3 2014.6.592.←vii | viii→
Figure 13.Cead Mile Failte, A Hundred Thousand Welcomes, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/53083>
Figure 14.Don’t Keep me in suspense …, Hely’s Dublin. Ellen Duff’s card collection.
Figure 15.I was rather amused …, Raphael Tuck. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 17.SS Majestic, J. Koehler, New York. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 22.Postcard message sent to Christina Jessop. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 23.Éire Gaedealac. Cead Míle Fáilte, Fergus O’Connor. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 24.Colleens Dancing, Ballymaclinton, Valentine’s. Author’s collection.
Figure 25.Blue Bell, Bamforth. Carmody family collection.←viii | ix→
Figure 26.A Real Home Ruler, no publisher/printer named. John O’Reilly/Bessie Caulfield collection.
Figure 27.Irish Spinning Wheel, Lawrence. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 28.Famed Finea, O’Leary. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 29.Dublin, Grafton Street, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/98966>
Figure 30.The Cake Walk, no publisher/printer named. Ellen Duff’s card collection.
Figure 31.In the Tunnel, Bamforth. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 32.Good Luck to Yez, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/49446>
Figure 33.The Spoiled Child, Lawrence. Author’s collection.
Figure 34.Etude de Nude, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/136876>
Figure 35.Hands across the Sea, 1910, Rotary. Carmody family collection.
Figure 36.The Green Shores of Erin, Hely’s, Dublin. Cobh Museum collection.
Figure 38.An Eskimo Woman Catching Tom Cod through the Ice, Behring Sea, B. B. Dobbs, Nome, Alaska. Christina Jessop’s card collection.←ix | x→
Figure 41.Seaside glamour, the morning dip, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/121735/pictures/326822>
Figure 43.Lower Lake, Glendalough, Raphael Tuck. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 44.Muckross Abbey Killarney, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/116224>
Figure 45.An Irish Homestead, Bray, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/85240>
Figure 48.Bringing home the turf, Fergus O’Connor. Carmody family collection.
Figure 50.Natural Bridge of Ross, Lawrence. Christina Jessop’s card collection.←x | xi→
Figure 51.Co Cork, Glengariffe Farmyard, Raphael Tuck. From <https://tuckdbpostcards.org/items/83384>
Figure 55.Untitled, Phototypie Van Cortenbergh, Lille-Bruxelles. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 56.London Life, an Italian Organ Grinder, Raphael Tuck. Christina Jessop’s card collection.
Figure 57.A Havasupai Indian Girl, Raphael Tuck. Green family collection.
Figure 58.Great House, Trelawney, Raphael Tuck. Green family collection.
Figure 59.‘Please drop in ….’, Hely’s, Dublin. Ellen Duff’s card collection.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 268
- Publication Year
- 2021
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781788740807
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781788740814
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781788740821
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781788740791
- DOI
- 10.3726/b12505
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (June)
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2021. XIV, 268 pp., 12 b/w ill., 61 b/w ill.
