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The scene on Upper Church Street shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest. A Dublin medical student, Barry was an Irish Volunteer who took part in an attack on a military truck outside a bakery on Church Street in which three British soldiers were killed in September 1920. He was captured at the scene, court-martialled and hanged in Mountjoy Jail on the morning of Monday, 1 November.

An image of the Upper Lake in Glendalough in County Wicklow. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Winter, Glendalough'.

An image of crowds lining Upper O’Connell Street in Dublin in April 1963. The photograph was taken during a bus strike in the city and the crowds are seemingly waiting for alternative means of transportation home.

A view of Victoria Quay, Dublin, in about 1930. The frontage of the quay is mainly occupied by the Guinness Brewery site.

A view near the village of Dugort on Achill Island, County Mayo.

A view from Great Blasket Island ('An Blascaod Mór') with the mainland in the distance. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'On the Blasket Islands / looking from Great Blasket towards the mainland'.

A view of the Castlepark peninsula located on the southern shore of the Bandon Estuary in Kinsale Harbour in County Cork. An annotation (on the reverse) reads 'a view from Kinsale'.

A view of O’Connell Street from atop Nelson’s Pillar in about 1930.

Photographic prints relating to the state visit to Ireland of King Baudouin (1930-1993) and Queen Fabiola (1925-2014) of Belgium in May 1968. The file was compiled for a photographic feature published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1969). The file includes press prints showing their arrival at Dublin Airport, their attendance at a state banquet at Dublin Castle, laying a wreath at the military cemetery in Arbour Hill, and a visit to Áras an Uachtaráin where King Baudouin played hurling with President Éamon de Valera and the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch. Frank Aiken, Minister for External Affairs, is also present in some of the photographs

Photographic prints relating to the visit to Ireland of President John F. Kennedy in June 1963. The photographs are primarily press prints credited to the 'Irish Times', the 'Irish Press', the 'Irish Independent' and Lensman Photographic Agency, Dublin. Other prints are credited to Liam Kennedy & Sons, photographers, 42 MacCurtain Street, Cork, and Ambrose O’Mullane, 15 Wellington Road, Cork. Many of the prints appeared in a special photographic section of 'The Capuchin Annual' (1964), pp 260-88, titled ‘President Kennedy in Ireland, 1963’. The file includes prints showing President Kennedy attending official functions in Dublin (including a state banquet in Iveagh House, and receptions in Dublin Castle and at Áras an Uachtaráin), at Arbour Hill Cemetery, in Wexford Town and in New Ross, and in motorcade processions on O’Connell Street, Dublin, and on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. Other individuals appearing in the prints include Sean T. O’Kelly, Éamon de Valera, Frank Aiken, Seán Lemass, and Eunice Mary Kennedy.