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A view of stone fishing huts on Achill Island off County Mayo in about 1940. A manuscript annotation on the print reads 'Seasonal fishing caves on Achill'.

A view of the railway station in the small village of Recess (in Irish ‘Sraith Saileach’) in County Galway. The station is located on the northwest corner of Glendollagh Lough. It was one of several stations that ran through central Connemara on the Galway to Clifden line of the Midland Great Western Railway which opened in 1895.

A view of the coastline off Mullaghmore ('An Mullach Mór') in County Sligo in about 1935.

A postcard print titled 'Loughbeg, Castlegregory, County Kerry'. The image shows boating activities on the shores of Lough Gill. A printed annotation on the reverse suggests the photograph is credited to T.J. Egan, Castlegregory.

An image of trawlers tied up at the harbour in the town of Killybegs in County Donegal.

A view of O’Brien’s Tower at the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare. The structure as built by the local landlord Sir Cornelius O'Brien in 1835 as an observation tower for the hundreds of tourists that visited the cliffs.

Images of the procession of friendly societies in the Italian Quarter of Hatton Garden in London in July 1931. The procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – held on the Sunday after 16 July – was Little Italy’s most important cultural event. Except during wartime, it has taken place annually since at least 1896. The procession was one of the first public manifestations of Catholicism given legal sanction since the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Queen Victoria was said to have granted special permission to the local police in Holborn to allow the parade to take place.

A view of a Great Southern Railways' (GSR) steam locomotive transiting the Irish countryside in about 1940. It is likely that that the locomotive shown in the photograph is ‘Maeḋḃ’ (Anglicised: ‘Maeve’), one of three steam trains designed and built from 1939-40 principally for passenger work on the Dublin to Cork route.

An image showing the construction of a currach at Baile na nGall (Ballydavid) on the northern shores of Smerwick Harbour on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry in about 1940. The print is annotated on the reverse ‘Building a Naomhóg, Baile na nGall, Dingle, County Kerry’. The print is credited to Emmet Humphreys, Blackrock, County Dublin.

A view of the exterior of St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry in about 1945.