A photograph of a group on board a ship (possibly the 'SS Dun Aengus') leaving the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway in about 1940. The print is titled on the reverse: ‘Farwell to the Aran Islands’.
A view of Templeport Lake near Bawnboy in County Cavan. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'St. Aidan of Ferns / 31st January [his feast-day] / Templeport Lake, County Cavan. On the wooded island in which St. Aidan was born. The "Cot" in the foreground is the "hearse" used to bring to the island the bodies of those who have the right of burial on it. Crom Cruagh in the distance'.
A view of the town of Cobh in Cork Harbour taken from an elevated point near St. Colman’s Cathedral in about 1950. The vessel at anchor in the harbour is the Irish Naval Service ship, LÉ ‘Maev’.
A view of Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, in about 1945. The modern town of Dundalk largely owes its form to James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil (c.1618-1659) who commissioned the construction of many of the main streets leading to the town centre.
An image titled ‘Inishmaan Pupils’. The print is slightly blurred but the date (25 May 1937) is visible on the teacher’s blackboard. Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) is the middle of the three main Aran Islands located off Galway on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast.