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A clipping of a report on the murders of Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and Thomas Henry Burke, Permanent Secretary for Ireland, in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 6 May 1882. The report was published in the ‘Morning Post’ newspaper.

A view of pet shops on Gresham Street in the Smithfield Market area of Belfast in about 1950. There were several pet shops located in this part of city which became a popular local attraction. This is reflected in the title of the print: ‘Pocket Zoo’.

Personal cheque from William Pearse’s personal bank account with the Terenure branch of the Royal Bank of Ireland Limited, for the payment of £2 to Percy C. Webb. The cheque is signed by Pearse.

A photographic print of an aerial view of Penrose Quay, Cork, in the early 1930s. The sailing ship (a four-masted barque) in the foreground is believed to be the 'Moshulu'. The steamship in the background is the ‘Innisfallen’, built in 1930 for the City of Cork Steam Packet Company. The ‘Innisfallen’ was lost during the Second World War when she struck a mine off Wirral Shore whilst sailing to Liverpool.

A family harvesting peat in County Tyrone in about 1940.

An image of a peat collector in the Sperrin Mountain range in County Tyrone. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Bringing home the turf / Seen in the Sperrin Mountains'. The photograph was taken by James Roland Bainbridge (1891-1967).