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A view of Upper O’Connell Street in Dublin. The image was taken from atop Nelson’s Pillar.

A view of O’Connell Street, Dublin, in about 1930. One of the prominent buildings on Upper O’Connell Street is the Grand Central Cinema which opened its doors in 1921. It was badly damaged in a bomb attack in 1923, and finally destroyed when a fire broke out in 1946. The location is now occupied by a bank.

A view of O’Connell Street in Limerick in about 1940. The clock tower in the distance in the image stood atop Cannock’s Department Store. It was demolished after the store was taken over by Penneys (Primark) in 1980.

A view of the seafront in Oban, the largest town in the Argyll and The Isles district on the west coast of Scotland.

Clippings of obituaries for Aodh de Blacam in the ‘Evening Herald’ and ‘Sunday Press’ (January 1951).

Obituary for Aodh de Blacam published in the ‘Irish Times’ (15 January 1951)

A clipping of an obituary and appreciation for Ellen Woodlock (1811-1884). The article was published in the ‘Cork Examiner’ (16 July 1884).

A clipping of an obituary or the sculptor Jerome Connor. The article includes an image of Connor with a section of his work for the ‘Lusitania’ memorial in Cobh, County Cork. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Press’ (23 August 1943). (Volume page 117).

A short obituary note for Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne) published in the 'Cork University Record’ in December 1944.

A clipping of an obituary article titled ‘A Great Gaelic Scholar / Death of the Very Rev. Dr. O’Hickey’ (‘Clonmel Nationalist’, 22 Nov. 1916). The opposite page has a print of Fr. Michael O’Hickey with a manuscript annotation which reads ‘Born at Carrickbeg, Carrick-on-Suir, 12th March 1961. Died at Portlaw, Co. Waterford 19th November 1916. Ordained priest in Waterford 1884. Appointed Professor of Irish, Maynooth College 1896’.