A clipping of a pictorial map showing ‘the points attacked in the City of Dublin by the Sinn Féin rebels’. The illustration was printed in the ‘Weekly Dispatch’ (30 April 1916).
Images of a group of Irish pilgrims travelling to the island of Iona, off the Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland. The pilgrimage was organised by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. The monastic community on Iona was founded by Columba (521-597 AD), also known as Colmcille, an Irish abbot and missionary, in 563 AD.
A bound volume containing clippings, photographs, picture postcards, devotional material, and printed ephemera re Fr. Senan Moynihan’s visit to Rome in 1948 for a Capuchin Inter-Provincial Congress, and in 1950 as part of an Irish pilgrimage to the Italian capital. The volume contains numerous photographic postcards of various (mainly religious) sites in Europe acquired during the 1950 Holy Year pilgrimage. The pilgrimage participants included Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap., Margaret Mary Pearse (the mother of Patrick and William Pearse), and Cormac Breathnach, Lord Mayor of Dublin. Inserts in the volume include travel ephemera such as itineraries, tickets, receipts, menus, and tourist guidebooks. Gilt title to the volume spine reads ‘Minute Book’. The volume is a Balmoral series account book.
A view of a group of pilgrims at Gougane Barra in County Cork in 1910. The photograph shows (second on the left) Fr. Huxley, the parish priest who was responsible for building the present-day oratory at Gougane Barra.
An image of female pipers on parade at the 1916 silver jubilee commemorations outside the General Post Office on O’Connell Street in Dublin. The parade took place on 13 April 1941.
Scale: 1/8 inch to 1 foot Plan of the Assembly Rooms fronting onto the South Mall by O’Flynn & Green, 3 Westbourne Villas, Western Road, Cork. The plan shows the ground floor plan of the building, comprising the entrance hall on the South Mall, and the main hall and projection room which is bordered to the east by the ‘Priory Garden’, and to the west by ‘Holy Trinity Church’. See also CA HT/2/1/1/36.
A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.
