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UCD Library Collection Spotlight: Nollaig Shona - Chrismas 2015
A monthly online and print display highlighting our collections
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Let your imagination take flight with one of our Christmas selections
Christmas 2015
Some More Christmas Books in the Collection
Another Family Christmas by Clare Boylan
Call Number: 823 IR BOYISBN: 9781853717857Publication Date: 1997-01-01All Silver and No Brass by Henry H. Glassie
Call Number: 398.09415 GLAISBN: 9780812211399Publication Date: 1976-01-01Irish Christmas Stories by David Marcus, ed.
Call Number: 823.08 IR MARISBN: 9780747523024Publication Date: 1995Irish Christmas Stories No 2 by David Marcus, ed.
Call Number: 823.08 IR MARISBN: 9780747533375Publication Date: 1997The Dolmen Book of Irish Christmas Stories by Dermot Bolger (Editor)
Call Number: 823.08 IR BOLISBN: 9780851054568Publication Date: 1986-12-31This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
Call Number: 823 IR BINISBN: 9781568652351Publication Date: 1996-11-01Christmas in Ireland by Colin Morrison (Introduction by)
Call Number: 820.8 IR MORISBN: 9781570982453Publication Date: 1998-10-01An Nollaig thiar by Breandán Ó hEithir
Call Number: 891.623 OHEISBN: 9781853710445Publication Date: 1989The Night Before Christmas by Alice Taylor
Call Number: 828 IR TAYISBN: 9780863223921Publication Date: 2009-06-18
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A Christmas Omnibus: The Best of John B. Keane
Call Number: 822 IR KEAISBN: 9781856353694Publication Date: 2001- The Christmas Tree by Jennifer JohnstonCall Number: James Joyce, General 823 IR JOHISBN: 0140120610Publication Date: 1989Constance Keating has lived a life of exile alienated from her family and from Ireland. Now she has returned home to die. While that process takes place she replays the fragments of her past. And, as the Christmas tree awaits its day, so she also waits, hoping that the outcome will be on her terms.
Christmas Day by Paul Durcan
Call Number: James Joyce, General 821 IR DURISBN: 1860462871Publication Date: 1996This book of poems by an Irish poet forms a beautiful vision of Christmas Day.- A Dream of Christmas:poems by Sean McCarthyCall Number: James Joyce, General 821 IR MCCPublication Date: 1973Also available in our Pamphlets collection.
Contains 20 Christmas poems. - Christmas Verse by Oxford University PressCall Number: James Joyce, Pamphlet Collection 094 CHRPublication Date: 1945
A Christmas Truce Carol by James O'Halloran
Call Number: James Joyce StoreISBN: 9781856077903Publication Date: 2013Historical Fiction, First World War, Ireland, Animals at War. December 24th 1914 and all along the western front soldiers are settling down for a night of disturbed sleep, foraging rats, and the evil attentions of enemy snipers. Suddenly from across No Mans Land comes the sound of singing. not sure at first what is happening the troops look at each other in disbelief and then slowly, slowly, they join in - Jim O Hallorans latest novel is set in the trenches of World War One and it tells the story of Irish soldiers in British uniforms, fighting Germans, to win Home Rule for Ireland. Their various motivations and reasons for being at war are exposed as they meet for the first and only time with the enemy. Young men just like themselves with wives, sweethearts, dreams and secrets, the inhumanity of war is slowly exposed for what it is. The complex issue of the Irish at the front is developed as some of the soldiers return to Ireland after the war, some injured physically, all impacted emotionally and psychologically.A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas; illustrated by Edward Ardizzone
Call Number: James Joyce, Pamphlet Collection 822 THOISBN: 0460027727Publication Date: 1986- A Christmas Garland by Max Beerbohm (editor)Call Number: James Joyce, General 824 BEEPublication Date: 1950
O Holy Night:masterworks of Christmas poetry by Johann M. Moser (Editor)
Call Number: James Joyce, General 808.819382 MOSISBN: 0918477247Publication Date: 1995Gathered from twenty-eight centuries, ten languages, and sixty-four authors, here is a uniquely diverse and yet wondrously harmonious collection of voices that have joined in praise for the newborn Savior.Indeed, O Holy Night! is the broadest anthology of Christmas poetry ever collected in English.For years, poet Johann Moser searched through hard-to-find works to unearth forgotten treasures of Nativity poetry. Now he brings together these undeservedly obscure masterpieces with familiar favorites -- so that each can inspire you anew with gratitude for the birth of the Holy Infant.From Virgil to Rilke, from Dante to Pasternak, Moser has found the world's most brilliant works of Christmas literature -- and he has carefully arranged them so that the collection as a whole sings with transcendent beauty, as does each of the individual pieces.These poems will enrich your Christmas celebrations and restore in you a lively sense of the miracle of the Incarnation throughout the year!The Annotated Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; John Leech (Illustrator); Michael Patrick Hearn (Foreword by)
Call Number: James Joyce, General 823 DICISBN: 0393051587Publication Date: 2004What would Christmas be without A Christmas Carol? Charles Dickens's famous ghost story is as much a part of the season as plum pudding and mistletoe.
Some Music
- A Christmas JubileeCall Number: James Joyce Library, CD 481Publication Date: 1940sRecordings taken from Armed Forces Radio Service Christmas Jubilee shows, in 1945 and 1947 accompanied by more 40's Christmas goodies.
- Songs for a Celtic Christmas by Anúna.Call Number: James Joyce Library, CD 651Publication Date: 1998
Some Christmas Movies
The Nightmare before Christmas
Call Number: James Joyce, DVD Collection 791.43 NIGPublication Date: 1994 (Ireland)The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown's beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the "real world." When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life -- he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.It's a Wonderful Life
Call Number: James Joyce, DVD Collection, 791.43 ITSPublication Date: 1946After George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he had never been born, an angel (Henry Travers) is sent to earth to make George's wish come true. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and impacted, and how they would be different if he was never there.
Christmas Carols
The New Oxford Book of Carols by Hugh Keyte (Editor); Andrew Parrott (Editor); Clifford Bartlett (Editor)
Call Number: James Joyce, Music Scores (Miniature) 782.28 KEYISBN: 0193533235Publication Date: 1992Edited by early music experts Hugh Keyte and Andrew Parrott, this anthology of Christmas carols is the most comprehensive collection ever made, spanning seven centuries of caroling in Britain, continental Europe, and North America. Containing music and text of 201 carols, many in more than one setting, the book is organized in two sections: composed carols, ranging from medieval Gregorian chants to modern compositions, and folk carols, including not only traditional Anglo-American songs but Irish, Welsh, German, Czech, Polish, French, Basque, Catalan, Sicilian, and West Indian songs as well. Each carol is set in four-part harmony, with lyrics in both the original language and English.
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