A large crowd welcomes the return of Harry Boland (central figure with straw hat) to Dublin following his release from prison in 1917. Boland had been arrested following the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to five years penal servitude serving his time first in Dartmoor Jail and later in Lewes Prison.
The funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney outside St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark, London, on 28 October 1920. MacSwiney was a republican Lord Mayor of Cork who died on 25 October 1920 in Brixton Prison after a lengthy hunger strike. As chaplain to the Mayor, Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, was at his side during his final days. He was also a prominent mourner at MacSwiney’s funeral. Fr. Dominic can be seen walking directly behind the carriage.
Copy prints compiled for an article by Michael Corcoran (1930-2018) titled ‘Six decades of Irish Road Transport’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 325-39. The file includes many historical prints of trams, buses and other forms of public transport
A postcard print of the ruined fifteenth-century tower house and on the left the Round Tower (the Crimea War Monument) at Ferrycarrig in County Wexford.
The scene on Upper Church Street shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest. A Dublin medical student, Barry was an Irish Volunteer who took part in an attack on a military truck outside a bakery on Church Street in which three British soldiers were killed in September 1920. He was captured at the scene, court-martialled and hanged in Mountjoy Jail on the morning of Monday, 1 November.
A photographic print of Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (1861-1935) with Irish Free State soldiers inspecting damage caused after the attack on the Four Courts in Dublin in July 1922.