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A view of the Monk’s Fishing House on the River Cong in County Mayo in about 1940. Situated not far from the site of the former Augustinian Abbey of Cong, this small stone structure probably dates to the early sixteenth century. The fishing house is located on an island on the River Cong leading towards nearby Lough Corrib. It is built on a platform of stones over a small arched opening which allows the river to flow underneath the floor. A trapdoor in the floor is thought to have been used for a net to catch fish. It is believed a line connected the fishing house to the monastery kitchen to alert the monks to a fresh catch.

A photographic print of Molly Childers arriving in Boston for medical treatment in 1947. She was treated as a patient in Brookline Hospital in Massachusetts from 1947 to 1950.

A view of the scenery around Mizen Head in County Cork, Ireland’s most south-westerly point, in about 1950. The building perched on the top of the cliff is Mizen Head Fog Signal Station built by the Commissioners of Irish Lights in 1906.

A view of the bridge at Mizen Head in County Cork, Ireland’s most south-westerly point. The bridge (built between 1908 and 1910) served the Mizen Head Fog Signal Station operated by the Commissioners of Irish Lights.

The volume contains a series of postcard prints depicting aspects of the missionary work of French Capuchin friars (and female Franciscan religious) in India and in Africa, particularly in Somalia and Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

An ambulance used by Capuchin missionaries in Berbera in British-controlled Somaliland in Northern Africa. French Capuchin friars from Toulouse began ministering in Somalia in 1881 and continued to labour there until they were expelled by the British authorities for political reasons.

Minute book and attendance record book of the Dublin Battalions of the Irish Volunteers. Includes attendance records from January 1916 to April 1916. A three-page minute record from 22 February 1916 to 15 April 1916 appears to be in the hand of Patrick Pearse. This record includes references to ‘street fighting’, ‘protection on march’, and later ‘mobilization’. An entry on 18 March 1916 refers to ‘problems set re outposts protection [at] D[ublin] Castle’. Includes numerous signatures of Irish Volunteers in attendance at various battalion meetings in the first four months of 1916. Signatures include those of Thomas MacDonagh, Seán Heuston, Frank Shouldice, Frank Daly, Richard McKee, Thomas Slater, Piaras Béaslaí, Oscar Traynor, Thomas Hunter, Éamon de Valera, The O’Reilly (Ua Rathghaille), W. T. Cosgrave and William Pearse. The volume is extant in green, hard bound covers, with a gilt title reading ‘1916’ on the front cover.

Photographic prints of an Irish military tattoo at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) arena in Dublin. The tattoo (essentially a pageant or display involving armed forces) was organised to raise funds for the Army Benevolent fund and to mark the contribution of the Irish Defence Forces (‘Óglaigh na hÉireann’) to the state during the wartime Emergency (1939-45). The reference to ‘Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill’s Army’ in the caption refers to the centrepiece of the tattoo, a recreation of O’Neill’s famous victory at the Battle of Benburb (5 June 1646) during the Irish Confederate Wars.

An image of Éamon de Valera inspecting Irish military personnel on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the 1916 Rising and was held on 13 April 1941.

A photographic print of soldiers parading along College Green in Dublin on St Patrick's Day in 1939. Douglas Hyde (Dubhghlas de hÍde), President of Ireland, is taking the salute on the right of the image.