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A view of fishermen repairing a sail off a rocky shoreline probably at Cill Éinne on Inis Mór, County Galway.

A view of fishermen at work at Helvick Head Harbour in County Waterford in about 1960. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘Mackerel men / Helvick, County Waterford’.

A view of men hauling in nets on board a fishing vessel off the west of the coast of Ireland (possibly off the Aran Islands) in about 1945.

An image of fishermen casting a large net into the sea off Kinsale in County Cork.

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 a fishing party on the shores of Lough Derg in County Tipperary in about 1960.

A flier for a performance of ‘Easter 1916’, a play by Montagu Slater, an English poet and playwright. The play covers the period from the 1913 lock-out to the 1916 Rising by chronicling the life of James Connolly, described as ‘Ireland’s first Socialist martyr’. A performance of Slater’s play was produced by the Left Theatre Company at the La Scala Theatre in Dublin in April 1936.

A flier promoting a production of John Millington Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin in July 1953. The production was staged by Cyril Cusack (1910-1993) with the actor himself in the title role (as Christy Mahon). The cast also included the Belfast-born actress Siobhán McKenna (as Pegeen Mike), with appearances by Jack McGowran, Walter Macken, and Cyril Cusack’s wife Maureen.

A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’), a small Irish neo-fascist party. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).

A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’) on the subject of partition. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).