A view of a turner working on a traditional pole lathe in County Wexford. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Bowl-turning on the pole lathe. One of the oldest crafts and now almost extinct as an art'.
Engravings from the ‘Illustrated London News’ showing the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable at Valentia and the ‘Telegraph Cable Fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay, County Cork’. The prints are taken from an edition dated 28 July 1866. The captions for the images read (top) ‘The Atlantic telegraph cable fleet at Berehaven, Bantry Bay’ and (lower) ‘Laying the shore end of the Atlantic telegraph cable at Foilhommerum [Bay], Isle of Valentia’. Located off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, Valentia Island was the eastern terminus of the first commercially viable transatlantic telegraph cable which came into operation in 1866. The prominent ship in the upper image is the ‘Great Eastern’, by some distance the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch.
A clipping showing scenes from a makeshift hospital in Dublin Castle following the 1916 Rising. The clipping also has an image of Patrick Pearse ‘styled “Commandant-in-Chief” of the Army of the Republic and “President” of the provisional government’.
An image of the trial of Jan Cieplak, the Archbishop of Vilnius, and other Russian Catholic priests, at a revolutionary tribunal in Moscow in March 1923. The photograph was taken and captioned (below) by Francis McCullagh (1874-1956), an Irish journalist who reported on the trial for the ‘New York Herald’. The caption is taken from a letter from McCullagh extant in letter book at CA CP/3/1/1/5. Several of McCullagh’s photographs relating to the Russian Civil War and the foundation of the Soviet Union are extant in the photographic volume.
A typescript copy of a letter from Sir Francis Vane referring to the Irish Volunteers during the Easter Rising. The letter was originally published in the ‘Freeman’s Journal’ (27 July 1916). (Volume page 34).
A clipping of a tribute to the Professor William Frederick Paul Stockley published in the ‘Cork University Record (Summer 1944). The tribute was most likely written by Dónall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery).
A small number of fliers and printed ephemera relating to by-elections for the constituency of Trinity College (University of Dublin) in 1875 and in 1887. During this period the college constituency was dominated by a Conservative and Unionist electorate.
