A view of pet shops on Gresham Street in the Smithfield Market area of Belfast in about 1950. There were several pet shops located in this part of city which became a popular local attraction. This is reflected in the title of the print: ‘Pocket Zoo’.
A clipping of a report on the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Secretary for Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 6 May 1882. The report was published in the ‘Morning Post’ newspaper.
A view of a road running through the Phoenix Park in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Sunshine in the Phoenix Park, Dublin'.
A clipping of a pictorial map showing ‘the points attacked in the City of Dublin by the Sinn Féin rebels’. The illustration was printed in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).
Images of a group of Irish pilgrims travelling to the island of Iona, off the Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland. The pilgrimage was organised by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. The monastic community on Iona was founded by Columba (521-597 AD), also known as Colmcille, an Irish abbot and missionary, in 563 AD.
A view of a group of pilgrims at Gougane Barra in County Cork in 1910. The photograph shows (second on the left) Fr. Huxley, the parish priest who was responsible for building the present-day oratory at Gougane Barra.
An image of female pipers on parade at the 1916 silver jubilee commemorations outside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade took place on 13 April 1941.
A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.