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A view of the Athlone Railway Bridge, also known as the White Bridge, a railway bridge over the River Shannon at Athlone in County Westmeath

An aerial view of Athlone, County Westmeath, in about 1940. The Church of Saints Peter and Paul (constructed between 1932-39) is prominent in the image.

A view of the Crom Abú (or Crom a Boo) Bridge and White's Castle on the River Barrow at Athy in County Kildare. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Evening at Athy on the River Barrow'.

Attendance record of the first and second Dublin Battalions of the Irish Volunteers. The entries are dated 15 April 1916. The record includes the signatures of Seán Heuston (Seán Mac Aodha), Richard McKee, Mícheál Ó Murchadha, The O’Reilly (Ua Rathghaille), William Pearse, and Thomas MacDonagh.

Brochure advertising the sale of Ards House and Estate. The brochure has photographic prints of Sheephaven Bay, Ards House, and the associated workmen’s cottages. It is noted that the sale includes 2,000 acres. Ards House comprises a stone-built Georgian style residence with ‘six reception rooms, a billiard room, 19 principal bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a nursery suite, splendid servant’s quarters, ample garages and stabling, 20 cottages and beautiful pleasure grounds’. The brochure provides details on various facets of the property and notes that the owner (Lady Ena Stewart-Bam) ‘has been in negotiation with the Irish Land Commission, who are quite prepared to give every facility to an intending purchaser’. The agent is noted as Messrs Battersby & Co., 39 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. The brochure also notes:
• The sale of the historic ‘Doe Castle’ ruin with about 30 acres of demesne land.
• The potential sale of ‘furniture which includes some old and rare pieces and a valuable library’.
• That the ‘Ards Estate has been in the possession of the Stewart family for about 150 years. The first Stewart of Ards and the First Marquess of Londonderry were only brothers. The present head, Lady Stewart-Bam of Ards, is selling the property as her husband’s chief interests are in South Africa’.
• That the price for the freehold is £50,000 including sporting and fishing rights.

A large audience for a pantomime performance in Father Mathew Hall on Church Street in Dublin in about 1955.

Authorisation from Colonel H.V. Cowan, Assistant Adjutant General, Headquarters, Irish Command, Parkgate, Dublin, to Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. The note reads: ‘The General Officer Commander in Chief directs that every facility be given to his Revered Father Aloysius OSFC to visit rebel prisoners at any of the places of detention or internment, to hear confessions and administer the rights of his Church, at all times’.

Award Ceremony for Br. Crispin Valeri OFM Cap. hosted by President Kenneth Kaunda at the State House in Lusaka. The Most Rev. Adrian Mung’andu, Bishop of Livingstone, is also in attendance.

Fr. Ronan Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. Benignus Buckley OFM Cap. and Benedict Nambota at a national award ceremony in Lusaka to honour Fr. Benignus for his relief work in Zambia.

An image of fishing vessel entering Baile na nGall Harbour, Ring (An Rinn), in County Waterford. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Baile na nGall, Ring, County Waterford'.