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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.

The ‘Forty Steps’ otherwise known as Cromwell’s Quarters just off James’s Street in Dublin.

A view of Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, in about 1945. The modern town of Dundalk largely owes its form to James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil (c.1618-1659) who commissioned the construction of many of the main streets leading to the town centre.

An aerial view of Waterford city showing Redmond Bridge in c.1940.

An image showing the construction of a currach at Baile na nGall (Ballydavid) on the northern shores of Smerwick Harbour on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry in about 1940. The print is annotated on the reverse ‘Building a Naomhóg, Baile na nGall, Dingle, County Kerry’. The print is credited to Emmet Humphreys, Blackrock, County Dublin.

A view of the exterior of St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry in about 1945.

A view of Marina Quay and the River Lee in Cork in about 1945.

An image of a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the garden of the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin in about 1945.

A view of Bunmahon (also called Bonmahon or in Irish, 'Bun Machan'), a small coastal village in County Waterford, in about 1935.