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A view of Derrynane House in County Kerry, the ancestral home of the Irish nationalist politician, Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847). An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The home of The Liberator / Daniel O'Connell / at Derrynane, Co. Kerry'.

A panoramic view of Derry City with the Craigavon Bridge in the foreground. The print was circulated by the Ulster Tourism Development Association (UTDA) which titled the photograph ‘a general view of Londonderry’.

A clipping of an obituary for the artist and President of the Royal Hibernian Academy Dermod O’Brien. The article notes that he was the grandson of William Smith O’Brien, they Young Irelander. The obituary was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (5 October 1945).

An inventory for furniture and interior fittings belonging to ‘Ards Castle’ (presumably Ard Mhuire Friary), Creeslough, County Donegal, to be sold at a demolition sale on 12 Oct. 1966. The auctioneers are noted as Quinn Bros. & McGowan, Longford. The building contractors are P.J. McLoughlin & Co., Longford.

Photographic prints of the demolition of the old Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. Some of the images also show the shell of the former Ards House and construction work on the new friary building and oratory. Several of the prints show the two buildings during the transition phase of construction of the new House of Studies and Ards Friary. A small number of the prints have annotations on the reverse:
• ‘Ceiling of choir, in old house, Ards, a few days before it was demolished’.
• ‘Demolition of old Ards House in progress’.
• ‘Ards, Autumn 1964’.