An aerial view of Clongowes Wood College near Clane in County Kildare. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Army Air Corps / 11 June 1937 / Clongowes Wood College / Lens: 10” / Height: 800’.
The Lee Public Baths, Victoria Cross, Cork, in about 1945. The Lee Baths were a sprawling outdoor and unheated swimming pool complex with rudimentary concrete finishes and a perilous diving board. Costing £23,000 to build, the baths opened to the public in 1934.
An ambulance used by Capuchin missionaries in Berbera in British-controlled Somaliland in Northern Africa. French Capuchin friars from Toulouse began ministering in Somalia in 1881 and continued to labour there until they were expelled by the British authorities for political reasons.
A crowned skull on the sarcophagus of Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740) framing the entrance to the Maria Theresa vault in the Imperial Crypt, Capuchin Friary, Vienna, Austria.
A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.