An image of religious sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady outside St. Francis Hospital in Monroe in North Louisiana in the United States. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘Group taken in 1919 at St. Francis / Monroe’. An index is given for the names and nationalities of the sisters. At least nine of the group are Irish.
An image of a commemoration marking the tercentenary of the synod which repudiated James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (1610-1688), the former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and excommunicated his followers. The synod was held in the Franciscan Friary in Jamestown in August 1650.
A postcard print showing a group of currachs and fishermen off the Aran Islands on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard. The printed annotation on the reverse reads ‘Real Photo by Mason, Dublin’.
A view of the small harbour at Roundstone, Connemara, County Galway, in about 1960. Roundstone (in Irish, ‘Cloch na Rón’, meaning ‘seal’s rock’) was built in the 1820s by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), a Scottish civil engineer who had settled in the locality.