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’.
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.
Cover addressed to 'The Father Mathew Record' and 'Capuchin Annual Office', Church Street, Dublin, from Leo Vala Photography, Knightsbridge Studios Brompton Road, London. The cover includes two black and white prints and a press release from Vala Photography regarding the proceeds from a sale of a profile print of Christ being donated to the Turin Shroud Investigation Fund.
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 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’.
