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A large group of Irish prisoners detained in Stafford Jail in England following the 1916 Rising. The print is annotated on the reverse: ‘photograph believed to be the largest group of 1916 men taken’. Stafford Jail was converted for use as a military detention barracks and was used to hold Irish internees before their transfer to Frongoch Internment Camp in North Wales.

A photograph of a large crowd outside Westland Row Station (now Pearse Station) in Dublin, awaiting the return of released republican prisoners. Many of the prisoners had fought in the Easter Rising of 1916.

A large crowd welcomes the return of Harry Boland (central figure with straw hat) to Dublin following his release from prison in 1917. Boland had been arrested following the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to five years penal servitude serving his time first in Dartmoor Jail and later in Lewes Prison.

The funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney outside St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark, London, on 28 October 1920. MacSwiney was a republican Lord Mayor of Cork who died on 25 October 1920 in Brixton Prison after a lengthy hunger strike. As chaplain to the Mayor, Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, was at his side during his final days. He was also a prominent mourner at MacSwiney’s funeral. Fr. Dominic can be seen walking directly behind the carriage.

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Fr. Kilian Walsh O. Cist. titled ‘Graiguenamanagh Abbey: History and Present Crisis’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1970), pp 73-80. The file contains black and white prints of Graiguenamanagh Abbey, County Kilkenny. The prints are credited to Fr. Athanasius, Mount Mellerary Abbey, Cappoquin, County Waterford. The prints have (partially detached) typescript annotations on the reverse

Photographic prints compiled for an article by Breandán Ó Riordáin titled ‘New Light on Old Dublin’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1972), pp 53-63. The file includes prints of various artefacts found in excavations at Winetavern Street and at High Street, Dublin. With a printed sketch map of the areas excavated

A view of the Spanish Arch, an historical landmark in Galway city, in about 1950.

A view of the original Abbey Theatre building in Dublin in about 1949. The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. In its early years, the theatre was closely associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival including Yeats, Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey.

A view of the Allied Irish Bank building at the corner of Westmoreland Street and College Street in Dublin in about 1950. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Architectural Study, Dublin'.

Detail from the exterior of George's Street Arcade, a Victorian style red-bricked market building (opened in 1881) located on South Great George's Street in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Beauty in block at George's Street, Dublin'.