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A view of Kilsheelan (Cill Síoláin), a small village in County Tipperary, in about 1930. Situated on the north bank of the River Suir, Kilsheelan is located about eight kilometres from Clonmel and eleven kilometres from Carrick-on-Suir.

A view of Lynch's Castle, a sixteenth-century town house, situated at the junction of Shop Street and Upper Abbeygate Street in Galway city.

A view of Macroom Castle on the banks of the River Sullane in County Cork in about 1930. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads '"Reflections", Macroom, Co. Cork / by Ita McNally, 11 South Mall, Cork'.

A view of a market scene in an Irish rural town (possibly in the midlands) in about 1930. No location is given for the photograph. The 'Fair View Hotel' is prominent in the image.

A view of the bridge at Mizen Head in County Cork, Ireland’s most south-westerly point. The bridge (built between 1908 and 1910) served the Mizen Head Fog Signal Station operated by the Commissioners of Irish Lights.

A view of the open-air swimming pool (the Lee Public Baths) at Victoria Cross in Cork city in about 1945.

A view of St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street in Dublin.

A view of Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin, in about 1945. The photograph was taken from the bridge spanning the Grand Canal. Although usually referred to as Portobello Bridge, the official name is La Touche Bridge, named after William Digges La Touche (1747-1803), the heir to a prominent Dublin business family and a director of the Grand Canal Company.

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 view of the Clock House in Mallow, County Cork, in 1936. The photograph can be accurately dated due to the advertisement for the motion picture ‘Craig’s Life’ visible outside the Central Cinema to the left of the print. The film, starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles, was released in 1936. The Clock House was built around 1855, by Sir Charles Jephson-Norreys (1799-1888), a local MP and an amateur architect. His creation was said to be inspired by a trip he had undertaken to the Alps. The Clock was brought from the tower of the Old Mallow Castle. The bell was cast at Millerd Street in Cork. The bell tower became dangerous and was removed in about 1970, but was restored in 1995.