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A print titled (on the reverse): ‘Turf / Lunchtime on the bog / Turf workers on Clonsast bog, County Offaly’. The image is credited to Charles C. Fennell.

An image of men collecting turf in traditional creels. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Turf gatherers from the West of Ireland'.

An image of a turf-cutting competition at Allenwood in County Kildare. A typescript annotation on the reverse notes that the image was taken in June 1942.

An image of turf collectors loading peat onto a traditional creel carried by a donkey. The location is the pier at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór (Inishmore), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. The village in the distance is Cill Rónáin (Kilronan).

A view of men loading turf onto a small boat probably bound for the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland.

An aerial view of the Tuam Sugar Beet Factory in about 1940. Manufacturing operations began in the factory in November 1934. The factory was a mainstay of the local economy and remained the principal employer in Tuam and the surrounding countryside for much of the twentieth century. It was finally closed in January 1987 and the plant was subsequently demolished.

A view of a truck and trailer at the entrance to Broadstone Station in Dublin in about 1935. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘A Chenard-Walcker tractor / trailer in the early 1930s / a forerunner of today’s juggernauts’.

A view of a train departing a small station in County Donegal (possibly Foxhall, near Letterkenny) in about 1940.

A view of a turner working on a traditional pole lathe in County Wexford. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Bowl-turning on the pole lathe. One of the oldest crafts and now almost extinct as an art'.

A view of the dining room in a traditional rural cottage.