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A view of Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, in about 1945. The modern town of Dundalk largely owes its form to James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil (c.1618-1659) who commissioned the construction of many of the main streets leading to the town centre.

An aerial view of Waterford city showing Redmond Bridge in c.1940.

An image titled ‘Inishmaan Pupils’. The print is slightly blurred but the date (25 May 1937) is visible on the teacher’s blackboard. Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) is the middle of the three main Aran Islands located off Galway on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast.

A postcard print of the beach at Rossbeigh in County Kerry.

A harvest scene near the small village of Dromara in County Down in c.1935.

A busy scene at a bus stop in Shandon, Cork, in about 1945. Shandon is a district on the north-side of Cork city.

A view of a truck and trailer at the entrance to Broadstone Station in Dublin in about 1935. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘A Chenard-Walcker tractor / trailer in the early 1930s / a forerunner of today’s juggernauts’.

The Grave of Michael Collins in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. From ‘Forty pages of Dublin Pictures by T. J. Molloy’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1938), pp 167-201.

Photographic print of the old Capuchin Chapel, Church Street, Dublin, built in 1796. The photographic print dates to c.1865.

Copy letter from T.J. Kiernan (1897-1967), Irish Minister to the Holy See, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Kiernan refers to the deprivations of life in Rome during the war. He writes 'It will be long before life is normal. We thought life would be easy after June (air-raids in March on 7th, 8th, 9th – 3 times – and 18th; the last was beside us and the house emptied quick enough ... We had no water for months and no electricity from 4th June. But now the difficulties are all the open robberies on the streets – the bandits are armed and strip the victims as clothes and boots are so valuable'. Kiernan also gives news of his family and refers to the experiences of the Irish community in Rome.