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A view of the Irish Lightship ‘Comet’ at Dún Laoghaire in about 1960. The ship was built in 1904 by J. Reid in Glasgow and measured ninety-six feet in length and twenty-three feet in breadth. The light vessel was decommissioned in 1965 and sold (for £7,000) to the shipbroking firm of Turner and Hickman in Glasgow. The ship later had a colourful history as an off-shore pirate radio station used by Radio Scotland.

A view of the pier in the harbour at Roundstone, Connemara, County Galway, in about 1960.

A print titled 'a Claddagh Group’, Galway, c.1940.

An image captioned 'Glengarriff Harbour' in County Cork.

A view of Wolfe Tone Quay in Dublin in about 1950.

A view of Portobello House on Richmond Row in Dublin in about 1955. The building was originally constructed as a hotel between 1805 and 1807. It later became a nursing home. The building is now occupied by Atlas Language School.

An image of Liberty Hall at the corner of Beresford Place and Eden Quay in Dublin shortly before its demolition in the late 1950s.

A view of a group of Irish travellers in a traditional horse-drawn caravan on a country road.

An image of the Capuchin Central Library (Biblioteca Centrale Cappuccini) in Rome in about 1930. Founded in the second half of the nineteenth century, the library was at this time located on the Via Boncompagni in the centre of Rome. In 1968, the library was relocated to the International College of St Lawrence of Brindisi situated on the outskirts of the city. The library has a stock of books and documents totaling 120,000 catalogued items including works by Capuchin authors, material on the early history and ministries of the Order, Franciscan publications, and many rare medieval and early modern books and items of ecclesiastical interest.

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’.