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An image of the Br. Burke Memorial Extension building at the North Monastery school in Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Burke Memorial Science School'. In 1911, the school celebrated its centenary and the Br. Burke extension was formally opened two years later in 1913. It takes its name from Br. James Burke who began teaching in the school in 1857 and was well known for his promotion of the teaching of science.

An image of pupils at North Monastery School in Cork.

A view of North Harbour on Cape Clear, Ireland's most southerly island, situated about ten kilometres off the south-west coast of County Cork. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Harbour, Cape Clear / Roaring Water Bay / and Mount Gabriel'.

An image of North Gate Bridge (from Bachelor’s Quay) in Cork in about 1940. Designed by the architect Sir John Benson (1812-1874), the foundation stone for North Gate Bridge was laid in April 1863. The bridge was demolished in 1961 and replaced with Griffith Bridge named in honour of Arthur Griffith (1871-1922).

A clipping of a report of a speech by Nora Connolly, the daughter of James Connolly, in St. Andrew’s Hall in Glasgow. The article is taken from ‘Forward’, a Scottish socialist newspaper (18 October 1919).

A print of studio portrait of Nora Chesson (née Hopper), an Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and journalist.

An annotated photograph showing Noel Lemass (standing, in uniform, third from the right) at a bazaar in the Mansion House in Dublin.

A flier supporting the campaign for the enfranchisement of women published by Lillian Metge (1871-1954), a Belfast-born suffragette and women’s rights campaigner.

A postcard print of a demonstration in Clogheen in County Tipperary in 1898. The demonstration commemorated Father Nicholas Sheehy (c.1728-1766), a local priest who was executed following what were widely believed to be false charges of involvement in agrarian unrest during the Penal Law era.

Newspaper clipping of an obituary for William Partridge (d. 26 July 1917).