An image titled ‘Inishmaan Pupils’. The print is slightly blurred but the date (25 May 1937) is visible on the teacher’s blackboard. Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) is the middle of the three main Aran Islands located off Galway on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast.
A view of Cave Hill, a prominent rocky hill overlooking Belfast. The structure on the slopes of Cave Hill is Belfast Castle, constructed in the late 1860s for George Hamilton Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (1797-1883).
A view of the ‘Journey’s End’ cottage at Baily, Howth, overlooking Dublin Bay in about 1940. The cottage was later purchased by Andrew Devane (1917-2000), one of Ireland’s leading architects. From 1952-55, he transformed Journey’s End into one of Ireland’s most famous modernist-style residences.
An aerial photograph of the Church of Christ the King in Cabra in Dublin. The church was designed by the firm of John Joseph Robinson (1887-1965) and Richard Cyril Keefe (c.1889-1965) and was formally opened in October 1933. A printed annotation on the reverse provides provenance information: ‘Army Air Corps / Date: 20 Feb. 1937 / Area: Cabra Chapel / Lens: 10” / Height: 600 m’.
A fisherman mending his floats at Ardmore in County Waterford in about 1955. A manuscript annotation to the print reads 'The lobster fisherman at Ardmore, County Waterford, repairs his floats'. The photograph is credited to F. O'Brien, Fermoy, County Cork.