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 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'.
A view of the ruins of Ardtully House near Kilgarvan in County Kerry. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Grounds of Ardtully Castle / showing the turret of the Orpen Mansion'. The original castle on this site was destroyed during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. In 1847, Sir Richard Orpen (1788-1876) demolished the remains of the castle and replaced it with a five-bay, two-storey Scottish-Baronial style house. This house was itself destroyed during the War of Independence in 1921.
An image of fishing vessels moored at Castletownbere Harbour in County Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The Pier, Castletownbere'.
A view of Achill Sound, a stretch of water separating Achill Island from the mainland. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Looking across the Sound of Achill to the island from the mainland of Mayo'.
