An image of a turf-cutting competition at Allenwood in County Kildare. A typescript annotation on the reverse notes that the image was taken in June 1942.
A view of stone fishing huts on Achill Island off County Mayo in about 1940. A manuscript annotation on the print reads 'Seasonal fishing caves on Achill'.
A view of the railway station in the small village of Recess (in Irish ‘Sraith Saileach’) in County Galway. The station is located on the northwest corner of Glendollagh Lough. It was one of several stations that ran through central Connemara on the Galway to Clifden line of the Midland Great Western Railway which opened in 1895.
A view of the courtyard of the eighteenth-century Commercial Buildings on Dame Street in Dublin. The building was used a meeting place by the Ouzel Galley Society, a representative body of city merchants which later became the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. It was demolished to enable the construction of the Central Bank of Ireland building in the 1970s.
Postcard print of a drawing of the North Camp, Frongoch, Wales, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Frongoch was described as the ‘University of the Revolution’. Among the internees in the camp were leading republicans such as Michael Collins, Terence MacSwiney, Richard Mulcahy, and Gerry Boland.
A photographic print of an election poster encouraging the public to vote for W.T. Cosgrave as Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny city in the parliamentary by-election in 1917. Cosgrave, who was a veteran of the 1916 Rising, was victorious in the by-election, defeating John Magennis of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Cosgrave would go on to serve for ten years (from 1922-32) as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.
Photographic print of Irish Republican prisoners at Fairford, Gloucestershire. An annotation (in pencil) on the reverse reads: ‘(left to right) Frank McCabe, Peter Healy (dead), Joe Mac Bride, Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, Liam Peadar, Sceilg [John Joseph O’Kelly], Barney Mellows, Darrell Figgis, Dr. McCartan … Deportees at Fairford’.