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A view of the Phoenix Park in Dublin in the summer of 1948.

A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.

A postcard print of the reception lodge at the Cistercian (Trappist) Mount Melleray Abbey in County Waterford.

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 St. Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street in Dublin in about 1940.

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.

An image of St. Stephen's Green (Faiche Stiabhna) in Dublin. The photograph shows the stone (pedestrian) bridge spanning the lake in the centre of the Green.

A photograph of crowds around the bandstand in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in the summer of 1948.

A view of a Great Southern Railways’ (GSR) steam locomotive transiting the Irish countryside in about 1940.

The Four Courts as seen from a laneway (‘the Forty Steps’) adjacent to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.