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Output of the Gayfield Press

About the Collection

The collection is formed from items originally acquired by UCC Library from 1930s-1940s. The collection contains some of the Dublin Poet pamphlet series.

The collection prefix before the call number is: Gayfield Press.

The collection is open.

Biographical History

Blanaid Salkeld (1880-1959), poet and publisher, established the Gayfield Press in her home in Morehampton Road in 1937. The Gayfield Press specialised in limited editions and broadsheets, publishing what was deemed by Salkeld to be ‘the best of the Irish artists.’ The Gayfield Press gave a platform to new and emerging poets, while appealing to established poets, or those with the means to do so, to fore go payment. Gayfield Press published 8 books and 9 pamphlets.

Collection Highlights

Book cover to 'The engine is left running'

Salkeld, Blanaid. The engine is left running. With cover and four pictures by Cecil ffrench Salkeld. Dublin: The Gayfield Press, 1937.

Limited edition statement to 'The engine is left running'

Salkeld, Blanaid. The engine is left running. With cover and four pictures by Cecil ffrench Salkeld. Dublin: The Gayfield Press, 1937.
 

Title page to 'Forty north, fifty west'

Milne, Ewart. Forty north, fifty west. Cover and six original cuts including a portrait of the author by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld. Dublin: Gayfield Press, [1938].

Limited edition statement to 'Forty north, fifty west'

Milne, Ewart. Forty north, fifty west. Cover and six original cuts including a portrait of the author by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld. Dublin: Gayfield Press, [1938].

About the Gayfield Press on 'Forty north, fifty west' wrapper

Milne, Ewart. Forty north, fifty west. Cover and six original cuts including a portrait of the author by Cecil Ffrench Salkeld. Dublin: Gayfield Press, [1938].

Front cover to 'The Straying Student'

Clarke, Austin. The straying student. Dublin: Gayfield, 1941.

No. 3 in the Dublin Poets & Artists series.

Colophon information about printing run

Clarke, Austin. The straying student. Dublin: Gayfield, 1941.

Cover to 'Connemara'

Hughes, Emily. Connemara. Cover and picture by Cecil ffrench Salkeld. Dublin: Gayfield, 1942.

Wood cut by Leslie Owen Baxter

McFadden, Roy. A poem: Russian summer. Picture by Leslie Owen Baxter. Dublin: Gayfield, 1942.

Excerpt from 'A poem: Russian summer'

McFadden, Roy. A poem: Russian summer. Picture by Leslie Owen Baxter. Dublin: Gayfield, 1942.

More Information

Letters to Blanaid Salkeld are located in other personal papers: 

  • Austin Clarke Papers, MS 83, MSS 38,651-38,708, National Library of Ireland. 
  • Sheila Wingfield Papers, MS107, MS 29,047-062/MS 25,559-25,616, National Library of Ireland. 
  • Le Brocquy Papers, MS 24,2321 National Library of Ireland.

Opening Hours

2023: 11 September - 21 December

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  • Microform & Reference Reading Room: Wednesday: 11:00-19:15.

Closed: Monday 30 October.

 

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