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An image of a temperance banner from the ‘Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association, Church Street. IRELAND SOBER IS IRELAND FREE!’. The banner was printed by An Clú Cumann, Limited, Gaelic Printers, Great Strand Street, Dublin.

A view of St. Michan’s Park in Dublin’s north inner city. St. Michan’s is one of the smallest Victorian parks in Dublin and it incorporates the foundations of Newgate Prison, demolished in 1893. The image shows St. Michan's Catholic Church and the adjoining park before the installation (in 1903) of the statue of Erin commemorating the United Irishmen who were executed in Newgate Prison following the 1798 Rebellion.

A view of pilgrims at the kneeling stone at St. Brigid’s Shrine, Faughart, near Dundalk in County Louth. The plate has a printed caption.

A view of Sackville (later O’Connell) Street looking towards the O’Connell monument in about 1890. In the foreground, the William Smith O’Brien statue stands in its original position at the junction of O’Connell Bridge and D’Olier Street.

A plate showing a group of unidentified nuns in a community photograph. The group appears to show both novices and solemnly professed sisters.

A view of Queenstown (now Cobh), County Cork, from the harbour. Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC died in Queenstown on 8 December 1856. St. Colman’s Cathedral is prominent in the image. The cathedral is still lacking the octagonal limestone spire. Construction on the Cathedral began in 1868 but work on the spire did not commence until 1911 and was eventually completed in 1914.

A plate showing a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (as a younger man). The portrait shows Fr. Mathew in traditional nineteenth-century clerical attire with a temperance medal pinned to his breast.

A view of a portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (in old age). The portrait shows Fr. Mathew in traditional nineteenth-century clerical attire.

An plate showing an hand-drawn ‘plan of the Old Franciscan Capuchin Church in Church Street. Taken from Rocque’s map of Dublin, 1773’. The scale is given as 10 feet to 1 inch. This is presumably a plan of the original Capuchin chapel built on Church Street. It was replaced by a church built in 1796 which in turn was replaced by the existing Church of St. Mary of the Angels (built from 1868 to 1881). The plate is by Mayne, Lord Edward Street, Dublin.

Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (1870-1957) and Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) with a large group of lay people on a pilgrimage to Lough Derg in County Donegal.