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An image of turf collectors loading peat onto a traditional creel carried by a donkey. The location is the pier at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór (Inishmore), one of the Aran Islands off the coast of County Galway. The village in the distance is Cill Rónáin (Kilronan).

A view of the open-air swimming pool (the Lee Public Baths) at Victoria Cross in Cork city in about 1945.

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 village of Dugort (also known as Doogort) on Achill Island off the coast of County Mayo on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard.

A view of children following cattle on a country road in about 1940.

A postcard print of a painting by William Henry Bartlett (1858-1932) titled ‘Connemara - Going to the Mainland’ dating to 1903.

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.

A view of the ruins on the Rock of Dunamase in County Laois in about 1960.

A letter from Jack B. Yeats to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. regarding a tribute article for the late Abbey Theatre actor, F.J. McCormick (1890-1947). Yeats refers to McCormick as ‘a very great actor’ but indicates that he will be unable to contribute to a tribute to be published in the 1948 edition of the ‘Annual’.