Angela Finegan’s Upside Down, Cinderella Doll

1st-She serves as a maid to her step-mother and sisters

2nd- She goes to the ball!

The upside down Cinderella doll came from our aunt in Winchester, England. A neighbour of hers made the dolls from scraps of material.

One year, for each of our birthdays a doll arrived in the post to us in Ireland. I remember my sister and I acting out the Cinderella story with the dolls.

Only my doll has survived!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella

https://www.colorado.edu/projects/fairy-tales/grimms-household-fairy-tales/cinderella#:~:text=Tale%20Summary,fit%20into%20the%20small%20shoe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair,_Brown_and_Trembling

Cinderella, Ladybird series, from an extensive collection at the Museum of Childhood Ireland, McAllister Collection.

Luaithríona

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St Oliver Plunkett NS, Blackrock perform Luaithríona.

Available: https://www.siopagaeilge.ie/search?q=children&type=product

Cinderella upside down doll donated to the Museum of Childhood Ireland by the Finegan family 2024.