The Lee Public Baths, Victoria Cross, Cork, in about 1945. The Lee Baths were a sprawling outdoor and unheated swimming pool complex with rudimentary concrete finishes and a perilous diving board. Costing £23,000 to build, the baths opened to the public in 1934.
A view of Leeson Street (near the junction with Adelaide Road) in Dublin in about 1960. The small brickwork building in the centre of the image is the kiosk, a landmark in Dublin’s south city.
An image of Leinster Lawn situated on the Merrion Square side of Leinster House, the seat of the Oireachtas. The Cenotaph commemorating Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, and Kevin O'Higgins, and John Henry Foley’s statue of Albert, the Prince Consort, are visible in the image.
Photograph of a Lenten mission in Holy Trinity Church in Cork. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘Lenten Mission (men’s week) conducted by the Very Rev. Frs. Aloysius and Paschal, English Province, in 1966 in Holy Trinity Church, Cork’.
A clipping of two photographs showing the crowds in attendance at Leopardstown Racecourse in Dublin in May 1915. The images were published in the ‘Irish Life’ magazine (7 May 1915). The original captions read (upper) ‘In the front, Marchioness Conyngham consulting her programme, on her right Mrs Faudel Philips, and on her left Miss Beatrice Murphy and (lower) ‘In the members’ enclosure watching the start’. The ‘Marchioness Conyngham’ referred to in the caption is Frances Elizabeth Conyngham (1862-1939), the widow of Henry Francis Conyngham, 4th Marquess Conyngham (1857-1897), of Slane Castle in County Meath. Marchioness Conyngham’s eldest son, Victor George Conyngham (5th Marquess), was a lieutenant in the South Irish Horse, a cavalry battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment which was deployed to the Western Front during the Great War. He survived the fighting but was stricken with pneumonia in the trenches, and died on 9 November 1918, at the age of 35, just two days before the Armistice. He was chronologically the last of the forty-two British parliamentarians who died during the war (he sat in the House of Lords as an Irish Peer). (Volume page 197).
A letter from Edward Thomas (‘E.T.’) Keane, editor of the ‘Kilkenny People’, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. referring to the ‘Orange Terror’ reprint. Keane states that ‘certain features of what you call Orange Terror are duplicated in the twenty-six counties’. He notes that ‘we probably have more internees, men and women, in the twenty-six counties … Our “Republican” government can do what they like and sit on criticism’.
A letter from Fr. Henry Gaffney OP, St. Mary’s, The Claddagh, Galway, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., congratulating him on the latest edition of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ and its 'valiant onslaught on the northern tyranny'. Gaffney adds ‘You have done greater work than all the loud politicians’.