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A view of traditional Irish dancing on the seafront at Bundoran, County Donegal, in about 1950.

A photographic postcard print captioned ‘Learning Irish Dancing at Ring College’ (Coláiste na Rinne) in County Waterford. Coláiste na Rinne was established in 1905 and officially recognised as an Irish language summer school in 1907. The principal founders of the college were Pádraig Ó Cadhla (1875-1948), an organiser for Conradh na Gaeilge in the locality, and Richard Henebry (1863-1916), also known as Risteard de Hindeberg, a Waterford-born priest, Irish language scholar and traditional music collector.

A photograph of the Irish delegation in London for negotiations with British officials. The group are from left to right John Whelan Dulanty, Irish High Commissioner, Seán Lemass, and Dr James Ryan.

A leaflet with the text of a letter from Edward Thomas O’Dwyer, the Bishop of Limerick, to the editor of the ‘Munster News’ dated 10 November 1915. The text reads ‘the treatment which the poor Irish emigrant lads have received at Liverpool is enough to make any Irishman's blood boil with anger and indignation. What wrong have they done to deserve insults and outrage at the hands of a brutal English mob? They don't want to be forced into the English Army, and sent to fight English battles in some part of the world’.

An image of a large group of Irish pilgrims at an audience with Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) at Castel Gandolfo just outside Rome on 20 September 1953. The pilgrims are members of the Third Order of St. Francis, a religious fraternity of lay men and women attached to the Franciscan Friary on Merchants’ Quay in Dublin. Several Franciscan friars (Order of Friars Minor) can be seen in the image. The individual (with the spectacles) immediately to the right of Pius XII is William MacNeely (1889-1963), the Bishop of Raphoe from 1923 until 1963.

A postcard print image of a large crowd assembled on Sackville Street (later O’Connell Street) in Dublin. The caption to the original postcard image (printed by Chancellor Photographic Studio) reads ‘Irish Language Procession, September 19, 1909’. (Volume page 27).

A postcard print image of a large crowd assembled on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin. The caption to the original postcard image (printed by Chancellor Photographic Studio) reads ‘Irish Language Procession, September 19, 1909’. In the background of the print, the statue of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864), a nationalist politician and Irish language activist, stands in its original position near the junction of O’Connell Bridge with Westmoreland Street and D’Olier Street. It was moved to its present location on O’Connell Street in 1929.

A view of the Irish Lightship ‘Comet’ at Dún Laoghaire in about 1960. The ship was built in 1904 by J. Reid in Glasgow and measured ninety-six feet in length and twenty-three feet in breadth. The light vessel was decommissioned in 1965 and sold (for £7,000) to the shipbroking firm of Turner and Hickman in Glasgow. The ship later had a colourful history as an off-shore pirate radio station used by Radio Scotland.

An image of an Irish delegation in London for a meeting with British ministers. The group is pictured outside the Savoy Hotel and includes Seán Lemass, Dr James Ryan, John Leydon and John Whelan Dulanty. The image is credited to Keystone Press Agency.

A photographic print of a National Army (Irish Free State) soldier conversing with a British Army soldier. The photograph was most likely taken during the handover of a military installation to the Provisional Government in 1922.