Mostrar 3418 resultados

A view of the St. Patrick Monument and Market Square (also known as 'The Octagon') in Westport, Count Mayo. The plate has a manuscript caption. The image forms part of the Lawrence Photograph Collection. (National Library of Ireland: LROY 00137).

An image of a pauper dressed in a disheveled long coat with hat standing in an alley way in Cork city.

A view of the White Star Liner ‘Oceanic’ leaving Queenstown (now Cobh) Harbour in 1905. Launched in 1899, it was largest ship in the world until 1901. At the outbreak of the First World War, the ship was requisitioned for service in the Royal Navy as an armed merchant cruiser. In September 1914, the ship ran aground off the coast of Shetland and was wrecked. She was the first Allied passenger ship to be lost in the war.

A lantern slide showing a print of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC addressing a committee. The print is captioned ‘Here goes, in the name of God!, Fr. Mathew inaugurates the temperance campaign on 10 April 1838'. The drawing is by Denis Santry (1879-1960).

A view of the interior of the Father Mathew Pavilion at the Cork International Exhibition of 1902. The image shows a large decorative banner and models of Holy Trinity Church in Cork, and Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary, the childhood home of Fr. Mathew. The plate is captioned.

An image of the body of Tomás MacCurtain lying in state following his assassination in Cork.

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 postcard print of Michael DeLacy (Enniscorthy Volunteers). The caption notes that he was ‘Sentenced to Death / Sentence Commuted to Penal Servitude for Five Years’.

A postcard print of Captain Thomas Slater. The caption notes that he was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life.

An image of Irish National Army troops at Beggars Bush Barracks in Dublin. Originally constructed for the British military in 1827, the barracks was the first military installation to be handed over to the newly formed Provisional Government on 1 February 1922.