A flier promoting a portfolio of work by twelve Irish artists. The flier has photographic prints of the artists courtesy of Chancellor Studios in Dublin. The flier was printed by Victor Waddington Publications. (Volume page 71).
A print titled (on the reverse): ‘Turf / Lunchtime on the bog / Turf workers on Clonsast bog, County Offaly’. The image is credited to Charles C. Fennell.
An image of men collecting turf in traditional creels. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Turf gatherers from the West of Ireland'.
An image of a turf-cutting competition at Allenwood in County Kildare. A typescript annotation on the reverse notes that the image was taken in June 1942.
An image of turf collectors loading peat onto a traditional creel carried by a donkey. The location is the pier at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór (Inishmore), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. The village in the distance is Cill Rónáin (Kilronan).
An aerial view of the Tuam Sugar Beet Factory in about 1940. Manufacturing operations began in the factory in November 1934. The factory was a mainstay of the local economy and remained the principal employer in Tuam and the surrounding countryside for much of the twentieth century. It was finally closed in January 1987 and the plant was subsequently demolished.