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A view of the exterior of the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Nicholas located on the corner of Middle Street and Lower Abbeygate Street in Galway. The building was a Catholic place of worship from 1816 until the new Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and Saint Nicholas was opened in 1965. The former Saint Nicholas Cathedral was deconsecrated and the building now houses a variety of retail outlets.

A view of St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street in Dublin in 1945.

A view of St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street in Dublin.

A religious procession at the Christ the King mission at Maramba, Northern Rhodesia.

The file includes press-agency (Keystone View Company, Fleet Street, London) photographs of the proclamation of the Spanish Republic in 1931. The prints are annotated on the reverse and include:

• Scenes in San Sebastian at the proclamation of the Republic. 17 Apr. 1931.
• ‘A street at San Sebastian, Spain, crowded with enthusiastic Republicans, after the Republic had been proclaimed there’.
• Soldiers armed with machine guns photographed outside a Church in Madrid, waiting for rioters. 13 May 1931.
• ‘A charge is to be brought against King Alfonso on the grounds that he assisted in the promotion of disturbances in Spain with the object of overthrowing or discrediting the Republican government. As a result of the serious fighting between the Republicans and Monarchists grave results have been registered. The Jesuit convent of Iglesais, and other religious institutes have been attacked and burned down by Republican communists’.
• Sailors joining in the joyous celebrations after the proclamation of the Catalonian Republic in Barcelona. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Anti-Monarchist rioting in Madrid. 12 May 1931.
• ‘Civil Guards dispersing the huge crowd of rioters in the streets of Madrid. Popular hostility to the manner in which the monarchist propaganda is being organised in Madrid culminated in serious anti-monarchist riots, when the Civil Guard fired on the great crowds, during which many casualties were reported. As a result of the tense situation, martial law has been proclaimed in the city’.
• The arrival of Niceto Alcalá-Zamora y Torres, President of the Republic, in Barcelona. c.Dec. 1931.
• Scenes in Madrid after proclamation of Republic. 16 Apr. 1931.
• ‘A woman hoisting the Republican flag surrounded by huge crowds after the proclamation of the Republic in Madrid’.
• The King of Spain’s bodyguard entering the Royal Palace in Madrid. 14 Apr. 1931.
• ‘It is officially stated that King Alfonso of Spain has abdicated his throne and it is reported that he is leaving tonight for Portugal with his family, en-route to England’.
• ‘The Place de Gracia in Barcelona, thronged with demonstrators during the election campaign last Saturday’. 29 June 1931.
• Spanish exile returns to Madrid. 17 Apr. 1931.
• ‘Major Franco, the airman revolt leader seen under the Republican flags held by followers when he left the train at a wayside station, during his journey from France to Madrid, to where he is returning from exile under the new regime’.
• Republican flag being hoisted on the top of a motor car after the proclamation of the Republic in Madrid. 16 Apr. 1931.
• The statute of the late Primo de Rivera, the former Dictator of Spain, being hauled through the streets with a rope round the neck, by Republican demonstrators. The statue was destroyed, and the site replaced by the statue of a Republican leader. 18 Apr. 1931.
• A Republican leader carrying the Republican flag being carried shoulder high by enthusiasts to the Town Hall after the proclamation of the Catalonian Republic in Barcelona. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Socialist demonstration in memory of Pablo Iglesias in Madrid. 21 Apr. 1931.
• A group of young republicans wearing Phrygian bonnets and carrying Republican flags in Barcelona. 29 June 1931.
• Crowds welcome the arrival of Republican leaders at Madrid’s train station. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Members of the new Spanish Republican government. 17 Apr. 1931.
• The release of prisoners at San Sebastian following the proclamation of the Spanish Republic. 17 Apr. 1931.
• Armoured cars guard banks against rioting in Madrid. 15 May 1931.
• King Alfonso XIII of Spain receives the new Italian Ambassador just before the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic and his flight into exile.

Programme card for the centenary celebrations of the inauguration of the temperance campaign by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at Holy Trinity Church (presided over by the Most Rev. Daniel Colahan, Bishop of Cork) and at City Hall Cork (oration delivered by the Most Rev. Jeremiah Kinane, 1884-1959, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore).

Programme for the literary sessions organised by the Cork Young Men’s Society for November 1903 to April 1904. The speakers included Fr. Richard Henebry on ‘Irish Music’ (1 December 1903) and Fr. John Butler OSFC on ‘The work and homes of the early Irish Franciscans’ (23 February 1904).

Sketch map of St. Joseph’s Cemetery ‘5 acres 2 roods 0 perches, late botanic gardens, representatives of Rev. Fr. Theobald Mathew’, bordered by ‘South Spittal Lands’ and by ‘the back road to the cemetery called on [the] city map “Tory Top Lane”’. The map also shows various numbered denominations of land possibly on the former Botanic Gardens' site. A numbered schedule of deeds and lease (nos. 3-16), possibly relating to the aforementioned site, is extant on the reverse of the sketch map.

A view of an Irish language demonstration passing the Maltings Complex on Prospect Row in Cork city. A typed annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The Irish language protest coming along Prospect Row on their way to the city on Saturday'.

Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. in Cape Town on the occasion of his visitation to South Africa in 1957. Front row (from left): Fr. Raphael Curran OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. James O'Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. Back row (from left): Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O'Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Macanise O'Neill OFM Cap., Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap.