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A young pianist performing at the Father Mathew Feis on Church Street in Dublin.

A clipping of a pictorial map showing ‘the points attacked in the City of Dublin by the Sinn Féin rebels’. The illustration was printed in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).

Images of a group of Irish pilgrims travelling to the island of Iona, off the Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland. The pilgrimage was organised by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. The monastic community on Iona was founded by Columba (521-597 AD), also known as Colmcille, an Irish abbot and missionary, in 563 AD.

A view of a group of pilgrims at Gougane Barra in County Cork in 1910. The photograph shows (second on the left) Fr. Huxley, the parish priest who was responsible for building the present-day oratory at Gougane Barra.

An image of female pipers on parade at the 1916 silver jubilee commemorations outside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade took place on 13 April 1941.

A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.

A view of two plough horses at work in fields on the coast of County Kerry. The photograph is by Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh (1907-1967).

'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 121, 22 Dec. 1922.

'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 6, 2 July 1922.