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A view of the Clock House in Mallow, County Cork, in 1936. The photograph can be accurately dated due to the advertisement for the motion picture ‘Craig’s Life’ visible outside the Central Cinema to the left of the print. The film, starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles, was released in 1936. The Clock House was built around 1855, by Sir Charles Jephson-Norreys (1799-1888), a local MP and an amateur architect. His creation was said to be inspired by a trip he had undertaken to the Alps. The Clock was brought from the tower of the Old Mallow Castle. The bell was cast at Millerd Street in Cork. The bell tower became dangerous and was removed in about 1970, but was restored in 1995.

An aerial view of the Tuam Sugar Beet Factory in about 1940. Manufacturing operations began in the factory in November 1934. The factory was a mainstay of the local economy and remained the principal employer in Tuam and the surrounding countryside for much of the twentieth century. It was finally closed in January 1987 and the plant was subsequently demolished.

A harvest scene near the small village of Dromara in County Down in c.1935.

A busy scene at a bus stop in Shandon, Cork, in about 1945. Shandon is a district on the north-side of Cork city.

A view of a truck and trailer at the entrance to Broadstone Station in Dublin in about 1935. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘A Chenard-Walcker tractor / trailer in the early 1930s / a forerunner of today’s juggernauts’.

An image of resting labourers on a farm in Rockwell near Cashel in County Tipperary in about 1955.

An image of the coast at Dún Laoghaire in County Dublin. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Eventide at Dún Laoghaire'.

A view of O’Connell Bridge and Eden Quay, Dublin, in about 1960. The Corinthian Cinema is a noticeable landmark on the left of the image. Originally rebuilt after the 1916 destruction of this part of city, the cinema opened in 1921. It was designed by T.F. McNamara with internal alterations to the auditorium in the 1930s by Jones & Kelly. It was apparently given the name ‘The Ranch’ because of the number of westerns it screened. The Corinthian closed in July 1975 but in October of the same year it re-opened as a two-screen cinema called the Odeon. The cinema closed its doors for the final time in 1993. The building was finally demolished in late 2002 to make way for a commercial development.

A view of Leeson Street (near the junction with Adelaide Road) in Dublin in about 1960. The small brickwork building in the centre of the image is the kiosk, a landmark in Dublin’s south city.

A view of the town of Drogheda in County Louth in about 1955. Visible in the print is the River Boyne (Drogheda is the last bridging point on the river before it enters the Irish Sea). Prominent buildings include (on the right) St. Peter's Church situated on an elevated site on the north side of West Street in the centre of the town.