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An aerial view of St. Patrick's College in Maynooth in County Kildare. The image shows Stoyte House, the College Chapel and St. Joseph's Square on what is now the South Campus of Maynooth University.

Members of the Dublin Corporation Lane Bequest Claim Committee including (fourth from the right) Mary Sheehy Kettle (1884-1967), widow of Tom Kettle, J.J. Howe, secretary to the City Manager, and J.J. Reynolds, councillor.

A postcard print view of Mount St. Joseph Trappist Abbey in Roscrea, County Tipperary. Printed title on the image side of the postcard reads 'Church and Abbey from East. Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea'.

A postcard view of the exterior of St Muredach’s Cathedral in Ballina, County Mayo. Construction of the cathedral commenced in 1827. Work on the building’s spire was completed in 1855. The postcard was produced by the Milton Postcard Company.

The Church of St. Laurence O’Toole on the corner of Seville Place and Lower Sheriff Street in Dublin.

An aerial view of St. Patrick's Hospital, Belmont Park, Waterford. St. Patrick's Hospital was a psychiatric hospital and institution run by the Brothers of Charity.

An image of a holly seller in Cork in about 1940.

A view of a group of children dancing a jig on Great Blasket Island (An Bhlascaod Mór) off the coast of County Kerry in about 1940.

An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.

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.