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An image of an Irish Volunteer with a rifle. The individual is dressed in civilian clothes.

A photograph of children playing at the river’s edge at Custom House Quay, Dublin, in the 1940s. The ship moored in the background, ‘Clarecastle’ was used by Guinness, the brewers, to transport their product to England from 1919-1953.

A view of College Green, Dublin, in the 1930s. Prominent are the electric trams of the Dublin United Tramways Company which operated in the capital from 1872 until the late 1940s.

A view of pilgrims aboard a small boat on their way to the Sanctuary of St Patrick on Lough Derg, County Donegal, in about 1930.

A view of O’Connell Street, Dublin, in about 1930. One of the prominent buildings on Upper O’Connell Street is the Grand Central Cinema which opened its doors in 1921. It was badly damaged in a bomb attack in 1923, and finally destroyed when a fire broke out in 1946. The location is now occupied by a bank.

A view of the island of Ireland's Eye off Howth Head on the Dublin coast in about 1945.

An image of Hore Abbey (or Hoare Abbey, sometimes known as St. Mary's), a ruined Cistercian monastery in County Tipperary. A typescript annotation on the reverse reads 'Through the window of the Rock of Cashel / A snap through one of the round windows of the Rock of Cashel showing Hore Abbey in the left corner'.

An image of a round tower (most likely the belfry tower associated with the adjacent Romanesque church) at the early medieval monastic site at Clonmacnoise in County Offaly. A Capuchin friar stands to the left of the image.

The exterior of the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’ public house near Athlone in County Westmeath in about 1930. Built in 1830, this bar was named after the ‘Three Jolly Pigeons’, a public house that provided the setting for Oliver Goldsmith’s well-known play ‘She Stoops to Conquer’, written in 1773.

A view of the town of Ennis in County Clare in about 1940. The photograph was taken from the bell tower of the old Franciscan Friary located on Abbey Street in the town.