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A view of the town of Cobh in Cork Harbour taken from an elevated point near St. Colman’s Cathedral in about 1950. The vessel at anchor in the harbour is the Irish Naval Service ship, LÉ ‘Maev’.

A view of Cobh Harbour in County Cork. The Cathedral Church of St. Colman is prominent in the image.

An image of the destroyed exterior of the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (a De La Salle Brothers’ school) in Madrid, Spain. The building was destroyed during anticlerical riots in the Spanish capital in May 1931. Between 10 May and 13 May 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were destroyed in an event known as the 'Burning of the Convents'.

A view of College Green, Dublin, in the 1930s. Prominent are the electric trams of the Dublin United Tramways Company which operated in the capital from 1872 until the late 1940s.

A view of the ruins of the Collegiate Church of St Peter and St Paul in Kilmallock in County Limerick.

Two views of Irish Army soldiers drilling in the Parade Square of Collins Barracks in Cork in about 1945.

Two views of the annual Easter commemoration at Arbour Hill Cemetery, Dublin, for the 1916 Rising leaders. The photographs probably show a commemoration ceremony held in the early 1950s.

An image of the unveiling of a memorial marking the tercentenary of the synod which repudiated James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (1610-1688), the former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and excommunicated his followers. The synod was held in the Franciscan Friary in Jamestown in August 1650.

An image of a commemoration marking the tercentenary of the synod which repudiated James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (1610-1688), the former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and excommunicated his followers. The synod was held in the Franciscan Friary in Jamestown in August 1650.

A view of the courtyard of the eighteenth-century Commercial Buildings on Dame Street in Dublin. The building was used a meeting place by the Ouzel Galley Society, a representative body of city merchants which later became the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. It was demolished to enable the construction of the Central Bank of Ireland building in the 1970s.