A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.
An image of female pipers on parade at the 1916 silver jubilee commemorations outside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade took place on 13 April 1941.
A view of a group of pilgrims at Gougane Barra in County Cork in 1910. The photograph shows (second on the left) Fr. Huxley, the parish priest who was responsible for building the present-day oratory at Gougane Barra.
Photographic prints relating to the pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, France, marking the centenary of the Marian apparitions of St. Bernadette Soubirous in 1858. The file contains numerous prints used to illustrate a series of articles published on the Lourdes pilgrimage published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1958). The text of the article indicates that the prints signed ‘L. Von Matt’ were sourced from a publication titled St. Bernadette, a quarto volume of 91 pages, with text of the Saint’s life by Monsignor Francis Trochu, illustrated by 183 pictures in photogravure by Leonard Von Matt. The file also includes many postcard prints of the Rosary Basilica and other shrines associated with the site.
Draft article by Benedict Kiely titled ‘Pictures in the Memory’. The article appears to be incomplete. The typescript is dated by Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap.: 17 Aug. 1974.
A clipping of a pictorial map showing ‘the points attacked in the City of Dublin by the Sinn Féin rebels’. The illustration was printed in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).
