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An image of boating on Bailieborough Lake (or Lough) in County Cavan. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'On the lake at Bailieborough / County Cavan'.

An image of Ardboe High Cross in County Tyrone. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'High Cross at Ardboe / said to be the finest example in Ireland'.

An image of fishermen casting a large net into the sea off Kinsale in County Cork.

A view of West Town Harbour on Tory Island off the coast of County Donegal. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Donegal Mountains seen at a distance of 10 miles from the harbour at West Town, Tory Island'.

A view of the coastal village of Clogherhead in County Lough in about 1940. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Co. Louth / Clogherhead - in the village street'.

An image of turf collectors loading peat onto a traditional creel carried by a donkey. The location is the pier at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór (Inishmore), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. The village in the distance is Cill Rónáin (Kilronan).

A view of the open-air swimming pool (the Lee Public Baths) at Victoria Cross in Cork city in about 1945.

Correspondence file relating to Christopher J. Brady who along with Michael J. Molloy and Liam Ó Briain, compositors, were responsible for printing the 1916 Proclamation. The Proclamation was composed in Liberty Hall, the headquarters of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union. Liberty Hall was also the location of the printing press, an antiquated Wharfdale Double Crown, used to print Connolly’s ‘The Worker’s Republic’ newspaper. Brady used this press to print the Proclamation on Sunday, 23 April 1916. The file includes a photographic print of Christopher J. Brady and letters mainly regarding requests that he authenticate original copies of the Proclamation. One of the letters (17 June 1934) is from Nellie Gifford-Donnelly to Brady requesting that he and Michael J. Molloy and Liam Ó Briain visit Dr. Kathleen Lynn to authenticate and sign a copy of the 1916 Proclamation in her possession. Both Gifford-Donnelly and Kathleen Lynn were committed nationalists and feminists who had participated in the Rising. Gifford-Donnelly was later instrumental in securing historical documents and objects associated with the Easter Rising. The Proclamation signed by Brady is now on display in the National Museum of Ireland.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding a tribute article for the late Abbey Theatre actor, F.J. McCormick (1890-1947). Yeats refers to McCormick as ‘a very great actor’ but indicates that he will be unable to contribute to a tribute to be published in the 1948 edition of the ‘Annual’.