A photographic print of the destroyed Gresham Hotel on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The hotel along with many other buildings on upper O’Connell Street were destroyed during the opening phases of the Civil War hostilities in Dublin.
An image of the interior courtyard area of the Four Courts in Dublin following the attack on the building at the outset of the Civil War. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel garrison surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / Picture shows the barricade behind the inside gates after the surrender’. The republican forces occupying the Four Courts, commanded by Rory O’Connor, surrendered after two days of shelling by the National Army (28-30 June 1922).
A view of Derrynane House in County Kerry, the ancestral home of the Irish nationalist politician, Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847). An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The home of The Liberator / Daniel O'Connell / at Derrynane, Co. Kerry'.
A panoramic view of Derry City with the Craigavon Bridge in the foreground. The print was circulated by the Ulster Tourism Development Association (UTDA) which titled the photograph ‘a general view of Londonderry’.
A clipping of an obituary for the artist and President of the Royal Hibernian Academy Dermod O’Brien. The article notes that he was the grandson of William Smith O’Brien, they Young Irelander. The obituary was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (5 October 1945).
Production stills from the 1938 film ‘The Island Man’, set on the Blasket Islands off the coast of County Kerry. The prints were assembled for a promotional article on the film published in ‘The Father Mathew Record’. The film starred Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971), a well-known Irish singer and collector of traditional ballads.
A clipping of a short death notice for William Woodlock, ‘one of the Divisional Magistrates of Dublin’. The article is taken from the ‘Irish Catholic’ (June 1890).
A clipping of a report on the death of Sir John Maxwell in Cape Town, South Africa, on 21 February 1929. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.
A clipping of a report on the death of Peter Murray, a prominent Irish American republican activist in California. Reference is made in the obituary to Murray’s friendship with Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Santa Inés. The clipping is taken from the ‘Irish Weekly’ (24 July 1944). (Volume page 21).