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A view of the main street (looking towards St. Joseph’s Church) in Clifden, County Galway, in about 1950.

A view of the ‘Innisfallen’ at Penrose Quay, Cork, leaving for Fishguard in Wales in about 1935.

A view of the Falls Road, Belfast, looking towards the Diamond Cinema, in about 1950.

A photographic print of a large crowd at a musical performance at the Band Hollow in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, in c.1945. In the early twentieth century, the Dublin United Tramways Company sponsored the performances of brass bands on the bandstand in the Hollow not far from the Zoo in the Phoenix Park.

An aerial view of Marina Quay and the River Lee taken from the Montenotte area in Cork. The original print is endorsed with an annotation on the reverse affirming that it was ‘passed by the censor’ suggesting that the photograph was taken some time between 1939 and 1945.

A view of Victoria Quay, Dublin, in about 1930. The frontage of the quay is mainly occupied by the Guinness Brewery site.

A view of the town of Ballina, County Mayo, in about 1940. The Nephin mountains (located to the west of the town) are visible in the background of the image.

Photographic prints of pencil portraits by Seán O’Sullivan RHA (1906-1964) of Irish nationalists (principally the leaders of the 1916 Rising). The file includes images of Seán Heuston, Michael Mallin, William Pearse, Seán MacBride, Edward Daly, Thomas Ashe, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Michael O’Hanrahan, Patrick Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, Roger Casement, James Connolly, Liam Mellows, Con Colbert, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke, Seán MacDermott, John Daly and Thomas Kent. The original portraits were created by O’Sullivan between 1936 and 1942 and are held in the National Museum of Ireland. There were reproduced in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1966).

Photographic prints compiled for a feature commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Rising, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1967), pp 101-30. The article was titled ‘Ireland remembers with pride Easter Week 1916 in Golden Jubilee celebrations’. Many of the prints are of various parades of veterans and civic events commemorating the Rising. Some of the prints are annotated on the reverse giving location, photographer and copyright information. The file includes prints from the 'Irish Press', Kennelly’s Photo Works, Tralee, and the 'Cork Examiner'. Includes images of parades and commemorations in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Dundalk, Tralee, Tullamore, Waterford, and London. The file includes the following images:
• Jubilee Parade at the GPO on O’Connell Street, Dublin.
• Florence Monteith Lynch and Nuala Creagh at Banna Strand, County Kerry.
• 1916 commemoration in Tullamore, County Offaly.
• Siobhan McKenna reads the 1916 proclamation in Eyre Square, Galway.
• Republican gathering at Thomas Kent’s grave in St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork.
• Members of Cumann na mBan and the old-IRA at the unveiling of a monument in Ennis, County Clare.
The file also includes a small number of related newspaper clippings.