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A view of the landscape around Slemish, a small mountain near Ballymena in County Antrim in about 1935. According to tradition, Slemish (or Slieve Mish as it was historically called), is the first known Irish home of Saint Patrick.

An image of Slane Castle and its surrounding parkland in County Meath. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Slane Castle and the River Boyne / County Meath'.

A view of Skerries Harbour in North County Dublin in about 1960.

A view of the ruins of the monastic settlement on Skellig Michael (also known as Great Skellig) off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print notes that the image shows ‘St. Michael’s Oratory and Abbot’s Cross on the Great Skellig’.

Copy prints compiled for an article by Michael Corcoran (1930-2018) titled ‘Six decades of Irish Road Transport’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 325-39. The file includes many historical prints of trams, buses and other forms of public transport

A view of Shop Street in Galway City in about 1955. The street is the principal thoroughfare through Galway. As the name suggests, it is the city’s main shopping street, and contains numerous old brick buildings, storefronts, and an array of bars. To the right in the photograph is Lynch’s Castle, the only complete secular medieval building left standing in Galway.

An image of Tuohy's shop front in Portumna in County Galway.

An image of J. Canning's shop front in Portumna in County Galway.

An image of a Ford dealership on MacCurtain Street, Cork, in about 1945.

A view of James (Jamesie) O'Flaherty in Kilronan, the main settlement on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, in about 1935. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads: ‘A special kind of footgear has been developed for negotiating the slabs of limestone with which the island is covered. Called the “Pampootie”, it is contrived of raw cowhide. In the photograph, an islander is seen making himself a pair of these novel shoes’.