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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 the exterior of St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry in about 1945.

A view of the exterior of St. John's Cathedral in Limerick in about 1940.

A view of the thirteenth-century St. Mary’s Church as seen from Rose Inn Street in Kilkenny in about 1940. An annotation on the reverse of the print refers to the building as 'Old St. Mary's', presumably to distinguish it from the later St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Kilkenny.

A view of a Great Southern Railways' (GSR) steam locomotive transiting the Irish countryside in about 1940. It is likely that that the locomotive shown in the photograph is ‘Maeḋḃ’ (Anglicised: ‘Maeve’), one of three steam trains designed and built from 1939-40 principally for passenger work on the Dublin to Cork route.

The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.

A view of boy standing on the rigging of a boat opposite the Custom House, Dublin, in about 1945.

A view of the Ford Factory in Cork in about 1945.

A view of the road (along the shores of Carlingford Lough) to the village of Rostrevor in County Down in about 1940. Slieve Martin is prominent in the background of the image.

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