Box 187
Brian Ua Nuallain, Brian O'Nolan, Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, 1911-1966 by Desmond MacNamara, , Bas relief, clay, metallic paint, glued to cardboard mount
Dublin, undated. Title written on cardboard mount, recto, in artist's hand; note in his hand on verso: "My Christmas card (very small edition, about 17), a few years ago… Cast in cold copper for esoteric reasons…"
Box 187
George Moore, 1851-1933 by Desmond MacNamara , 1992, Bas relief, clay, metallic paint, glued to cardboard mount
Title written on cardboard mount, recto, in artist's hand; signed note in his hand on verso: "For the last 15 years I have done an Irish literary portrait: a sort of non throwaway Christmas card…"
Box 187
Lady Wilde (Speranza, Jane Elgee), 1826-1896 by Desmond MacNamara, 1995, Bas relief, clay, metallic paint, glued to cardboard mount
Dublin, Title written on cardboard mount, recto, in artist's hand; note in his hand on verso: "A valiant poet of the 1848 troubles…"
Box 187
Paul Léopold Léon, d. 1942 by Desmond MacNamara, Bas relief, clay, metallic paint, glued to cardboard mount
Dublin, undated. Title written on cardboard mount, recto, in artist's hand; note in his hand on verso: "Joyce's "all seeing eyes" - Paris ; in token of his depositing of Joyce's papers at the Irish Legation, before being picked up by the Gestapo"