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Glenavy, Beatrice Moss Campbell, Baroness, 1883-1970

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1883 - 1970

Biographical Note

Beatrice Moss Campbell (Lady Glenavy) (1883–1970), painter, sculptor, and stained-glass artist, was born 30 April 1883 in Dublin to William and Theresa (Moss) Elvery. She studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. In 1912, she married the barrister Charles Campbell, later the second Baron Glenavy. She was active in Dublin's arts and crafts movement and exhibited throughout her life at the Royal Hibernian Academy. She designed stained glass for Sarah Purser's studio, An Túr Gloine, and calendars, cards and prints for the Yeats family's Cuala Press. She published a memoir, And Today We Will Only Gossip, in 1964. She died 21 May 1970 in Dublin.

Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Card No. 5, "Christmas Eve", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Duffin, Ruth (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 10, "Christmas Candle", between 1908-1968

 File — Box 2, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Letts, W.M. (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 10, "Christmas Candle", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Letts, W.M. (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 18, "The Magnificat", between 1908-1968

 File — Box 2, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents

Scot, Michael (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 18, "The Magnificat", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Scot, Michael (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 19, "The Little Ass", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Scot, Michael (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 23, "Star of Bethlehem", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Greeting cards, most hand-colored. Includes a complete run of the 153 numbered cards cataloged in the Cuala Press "Christmas Card List" (printed approximately 1950 according to Trinity College Dublin). The unnumbered cards include Christmas, Easter, and non-holiday cards. For many cards there is more than one copy, and the hand-coloring is unique on each. Some uncolored cards are also included, where noted.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 26, "Stooping Angels", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Poem from a carol. 2 cards, 1 uncolored.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 35, "Within a little Field", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Gibbon, Monk (Poet). 2 cards.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 48, "The Comrade", between 1908-1968

 File — Box 2, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Letts, W.M. (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 48, "The Comrade", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Letts, W.M. (Poet). 2 cards, 1 uncolored.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 66, "Mother of God", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Coleridge, Mary (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 67, "Bid Old Days", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Mitchell, Susan (Poet). 2 cards.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 68, "Red-berried Holly", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Mitchell, Susan (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 71, "Homing Song", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Tynan, Katharine (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 86, "The Windy Hill", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Gibbon, Monk (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 121, "Whose Days", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Lawless, Emily (Poet). 2 cards.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 126, "Nursery Song", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Mitchell, Susan (Poet). 2 cards.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Card No. 130, "Red Rover", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Tynan, Katharine (Poet). 2 cards.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Print No. 32, "Mother of God", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Prints, as listed in Cuala Industries' "List of Hand-printed and Hand-coloured Prints with Words, also Poems with Initial Letters, All Suitable for Framing". Unlike the cards, print numbers are not indicated on the prints themselves; the numbers, titles, artists, and poets are taken from Cuala's list. (See the "printing lists" file.) Some prints are uncolored, as noted.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Print No. 33, "The Fairy Hill ", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 3, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Prints, as listed in Cuala Industries' "List of Hand-printed and Hand-coloured Prints with Words, also Poems with Initial Letters, All Suitable for Framing". Unlike the cards, print numbers are not indicated on the prints themselves; the numbers, titles, artists, and poets are taken from Cuala's list. (See the "printing lists" file.) Some prints are uncolored, as noted.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Print No. 34, "The Stooping Angels", approximately 1925-1940

 File — Box 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Hand-colored cards and prints produced by Cuala Press in Dublin, Ireland. Also includes some promotional materials and correspondence of the women who ran the press, first Elizabeth C. Yeats (1908-1940) and later Georgie Yeats (Mrs. W.B. Yeats, 1940-1946). Though less present in the correspondence, some materials were also sourced from Molly Gill, the Press's principal compositor, who continued to produce the press's cards and prints until 1968. Also contains a small amount of promotional...
Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: approximately 1925-1940

Print No. 36, "The Old Woman of the Roads", between 1908-1968

 Item — Box 16, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Colum, Padric (Poet). Uncolored.

Access Note

Collection is open for research; portions of the collection available digitally.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Print No. 37, "The Cradle Song", between 1908-1968

 File — Box 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Colum, Padraic (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: between 1908-1968

Print No. 38, "Across the Door", between 1908-1968

 File — Box 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Colum, Padraic (Poet).

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Dates: between 1908-1968