A view of the original Abbey Theatre building in Dublin in about 1949. The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. In its early years, the theatre was closely associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival including Yeats, Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey.
A view of the Allied Irish Bank building at the corner of Westmoreland Street and College Street in Dublin in about 1950. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Architectural Study, Dublin'.
Detail from the exterior of George's Street Arcade, a Victorian style red-bricked market building (opened in 1881) located on South Great George's Street in Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Beauty in block at George's Street, Dublin'.
The scene on Upper Church Street shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest. A Dublin medical student, Barry was an Irish Volunteer who took part in an attack on a military truck outside a bakery on Church Street in which three British soldiers were killed in September 1920. He was captured at the scene, court-martialled and hanged in Mountjoy Jail on the morning of Monday, 1 November.
A photographic print of Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (1861-1935) with Irish Free State soldiers inspecting damage caused after the attack on the Four Courts in Dublin in July 1922.