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An image of J. Canning's shop front in Portumna in County Galway.

Steamships at the quay in Waterford in about 1935.

A view of Sheares Street, near the Mardyke Park in Cork, in about 1940. The street was previously known as Nile Street before its name was changed to honour the Cork-born Sheares’ brothers, Henry (1753-1798) and John (1766-1798), members of the Society of United Irishmen who were executed following the 1798 Rebellion.

A print titled ‘Small talk on Shandon Street, Cork’. The print is dated to c.1940. From the eighteenth century onward, Shandon Street was known as major site for commercial activity on the north-side of Cork. Some of the women in the image are wearing a traditional black shawl. Many working-class Irish women survived as street traders, selling fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothing. In Cork they were known as ‘the Shawlies’ because of the distinctive, traditional black shawls they wore on the streets.

A postcard print of Saint Patrick's Statue near the village of Saul in County Down.

A view of the exterior of Saint Patrick's Catholic Cathedral on North Street in Skibbereen in County Cork. Located in the Diocese of Cork and Ross, this neo-classical church was built between 1826 and 1832 to a design by the Cork-born architect, Michael Augustine O'Riordan (c.1783-1848), a Presentation Brother.

A view of Saint Fin Barre's (Anglican) Cathedral, from South Main Street, Cork.

An image of the ruins of Killarney House in County Kerry in about 1945. Built in 1872 for Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare (1825-1905), this Elizabethan-Revival manor house was built on an elevated site overlooking Lough Leane. It was destroyed by fire in 1913 and was never rebuilt.

A view of the exterior of the Royal Irish Academy of Music located in a Georgian building on Westland Row in Dublin.

A view of the harbour at Roundstone in Connemara, County Galway, in about 1940.