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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.

A clipping of a photograph of a group of Irish prisoners held at a camp in Limburg, Germany. It is noted that Lance Corporal Eite, Royal Irish Rifles, was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Marne (September 1914). Lance Corporal Eite was employed at the Guinness Brewery prior to the outbreak of the war. It is also affirmed that Eite’s father resides at 31 Oxmantown Road in Dublin.

A flier promoting the ‘Irish Race Convention’ in New York in August 1932. This fund-raising convention was organised by the ‘Irish World’ newspaper, the largest Irish American newspaper.

A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Henry Street, Dublin, after the shelling of the rebels’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.

A postcard print captioned ‘Irish rebellion May 1916 / Liberty Hall, Dublin, the rebel headquarters, after the storming’. Printed by the ‘Daily Sketch’ for Eason and Sons.