An image of a turf gatherer. A typescript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Turf: one seventh of Ireland is covered with turf, varying from one or two feet to twenty feet in depth’. The image is credited to Charles C. Fennell, Dundrum, County Dublin.
A view of the scenery around Mizen Head in County Cork, Ireland’s most south-westerly point, in about 1950. The building perched on the top of the cliff is Mizen Head Fog Signal Station built by the Commissioners of Irish Lights in 1906.
A postcard print of the lake-side scenery at Gougane Barra near Macroom in County Cork. The postcard is printed on the image side. Printed annotation on the reverse reads 'Real Photo by Mason, Dublin'.
A postcard image of the Pass of Keimaneigh (in Irish 'Céim an Fhia') in the Shehy Mountains in County Cork. Printed annotation on the reverse reads 'Real Photo by Mason, Dublin'.
A view of Dunlewey Lough and the ruins of old Dunlewey Church in County Donegal. The photograph was taken on the slopes of Errigal. The ruined church was formerly a Church of Ireland (Anglican) chapel of ease, built in about 1853.
Two views of the annual Easter commemoration at Arbour Hill Cemetery, Dublin, for the 1916 Rising leaders. The photographs probably show a commemoration ceremony held in the early 1950s.
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 a large group of Irish pilgrims at an audience with Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) at Castel Gandolfo just outside Rome on 20 September 1953. The pilgrims are members of the Third Order of St. Francis, a religious fraternity of lay men and women attached to the Franciscan Friary on Merchants’ Quay in Dublin. Several Franciscan friars (Order of Friars Minor) can be seen in the image. The individual (with the spectacles) immediately to the right of Pius XII is William MacNeely (1889-1963), the Bishop of Raphoe from 1923 until 1963.