Catholic Archives

Burning Potato Stalks, Skerries, County Dublin

IE CA CP/1/1/3/11/2
Deel
c.1960

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

An image of farmers burning potato stalks in fields near Skerries in North County Dublin.

Fisherman, Gola Island, County Donegal

IE CA CP/1/1/3/12/5
Deel
c.1955

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

An image of a fisherman working on pots at the small harbour on Gola Island (‘Gabhla’) off the coast of Gweedore (‘Gaoth Dobhair’) in County Donegal. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Hughie McSweeney / Gola Island, County Donegal, works at his pots under the protecting shrine of Our Lady which was erected during the Marian Year [1954]’.

The Bull Ring, Wexford

IE CA CP/1/1/3/13/8
Deel
c.1955

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A view of the 1798 Monument and the Bull Ring Market area in Wexford Town in about 1955.

Clogherhead, County Louth

IE CA CP/1/1/3/13/14
Deel
c.1960

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A view of the coast at Clogherhead in County Louth in about 1960.

Market Square, Enniscorthy, County Wexford

IE CA CP/1/1/4/86/3
Deel
c.1915

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

A postcard print of Market Square in Enniscorthy in County Wexford.

Funeral of Chief Superintendent Seán Gantly, Church of the Immaculate Conception, Dublin

IE CA CP/1/1/4/10/2
Deel
23 Jan. 1948

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

The funeral of Chief Superintendent Seán Gantly, head of the Garda Special Branch, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception on Merchants' Quay in Dublin on 23 January 1948. Gantly was leading a party of Gardai from the Detective Branch at Dublin Castle in a search for escaped prisoners at the Hammond Lane Foundry when he was accidentally shot.

Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, arriving at Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin

IE CA CP/1/1/4/10/3
Deel
June 1935

Part of Irish Capuchin Archives

Joseph Aloysius Lyons (1879-1939), Prime Minister of Australia, with Éamon de Valera, at Dún Laoghaire during the former's official visit to Ireland in June 1935. A typescript caption reads 'Australia's Premier's visit / Mr. J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, and Mr. de Valera, who met him at his arrival at Dún Laoghaire'.