Photographic prints for an article by James Flynn titled ‘Teresa Brayton, 1868-1943’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1961). The file includes prints of the unveiling of a Celtic Cross over the grave of Teresa Brayton in the churchyard of Cluain Conaire, County Kildare, by President Éamon de Valera. Other prints show the Rev. Dr. Corkery speaking at the unveiling, and the countryside which inspired Brayton’s writings.
A colourized postcard print of the terminal building at Dublin Airport. Printed title on the image side reads: 'Irish Air Lines Passenger Plane at Dublin Airport, Ireland'.
A view of traditional thatched cottage near Lusk in County Dublin in about 1960. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Thatched cottage near Lusk / The last of the Greater Commons'.
The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.
A view of the original Abbey Theatre building in Dublin in about 1949. The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. In its early years, the theatre was closely associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival including Yeats, Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey.
