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A view of Church Bay, the main harbour on Rathlin Island off the coast of County Antrim.

A Christmas greeting card from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain). The card dates to December 1937 and was probably sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The Spanish text translates as ‘Forward to victory over fascism in 1938!’. The greeting in Irish reads ‘Happy Christmas and New Year / from / the Irish Republican Army / “Connolly Battalion” / XV International Brigade / Army of the Republic of Spain / Christmas 1937’. (Volume page 107).

A view of a group of children dancing a jig on Great Blasket Island (An Bhlascaod Mór) off the coast of County Kerry in about 1940.

The front cover of ‘Everyman’, an English magazine, with a portrait image of Charlotte Despard, an Anglo-Irish suffragist and socialist.

A view of the Square in Charlestown in County Mayo in about 1960.

A Charles Stewart Parnell Christmas greeting card (with oval portrait print). Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. seemingly also obtained Parnell’s autograph slip which he afterwards laid into the volume underneath the card.

An image of the interior of the Chapter Room in Mount Melleray Cistercian Abbey in County Waterford.

A view of Chapelizod on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin in about 1955. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'Chapelizod'.

A view of the changing of the military guard outside the National History Museum at the rear of Leinster House, Dublin. The soldiers are walking towards the pathway which leads to the North Road running between the Museum and the Department of the Attorney General.

A photograph an Irish National Army officer (identified as ‘Captain Heaslip’ in the original caption) conversing with a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment as the former prepares to assume guard duties at the Bank of Ireland building on College Green in Dublin. This was one of several significant public handovers from the British administration to the Provisional Government during 1922. The event was noteworthy as it was first time that the historic Bank of Ireland building (prior to 1801 it housed the Parliament of Ireland) was guarded by non-British troops.