A view of Farren's Quay and Pope's Quay in Cork in about 1945. The tower of the Church of St. Anne in the Shandon district of the city is visible in the image.
A clipping of a report on the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Cork city at which the local regiment of Irish National Volunteers honoured the ‘400 Volunteers who are fighting for Ireland in the trenches’. The article is taken from the ‘Daily News’ (18 March 1916).
The interior of Corcomroe Abbey, an early thirteenth-century Cistercian monastery situated in the Burren region of County Clare. The image shows detail from the stonework in the interior of the abbey, looking east through the choir and into the presbytery. An annotation on the reverse indicates that the photographer was T. F. Geoghegan.
Copy will and last testament of Susanna Mee, Templeville, County Cork. She bequeaths all her rights, title and interest to several premises on Morrison’s Island (otherwise known as Island Nagay) tenanted by her nephew, John Lecky, and Michael Wood, and premises on Queen Street (demised to George Cotter) for the sole benefit of the aforementioned John Lecky subject to £1,000, the interest to be paid to her sister, Margaret Lecky, for life.
A photograph of a sketch of James Ryan, a revolutionary and later a Fianna Fáil politician. The original sketch was drawn by Seán O’Sullivan (1906-1964) and is dated 1937.
Copy print of a sketch map of the 'Ards Estate Home Farm Offices, the property of A.J.R. Stewart'. The map dates to c.1870. The copy photographic print is of a later date.
A copy print of an engraving of Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c.1655-1693), an Irish Jacobite soldier. The source of the original print is not given but it likely dates to the mid-eighteenth century. A note states that the likeness of Sarsfield is derived from the ‘original picture in the possession of Sir Charles Bingham Bart. of Castlebar in the County of Mayo, in the Kingdom of Ireland’.
A photographic print of a view of the ruins of Graiguenamanagh Abbey in County Kilkenny in 1792. An annotation on the reverse reads 'The ruins as they were in 1792 / 20 years before restoration'.
Copy note re Harry Clarke stained glass windows in Holy Trinity Church in Cork. It is remarked that the 'windows were designed and made in the studios of Clark[e] and Son under the supervision of Harry Clarke RHA (now deceased. 1933) and erected in the Franciscan Capuchin Church, Cork, 1928 / The above is in the handwriting of the late Fr. Martin [Hyland OFM Cap.] and he remark[s] that it is a true copy of that supplied by Mr. Clark[e]'. This typescript copy note is pasted into the volume at p. 7.
