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A postcard print image of the Healy Pass near Glengarriff in County Cork. The caption provides the full name of the road. It was named after Timothy Michael Healy (1885-1931), a Cork-born nationalist politician, and the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

A view of the harbour at Helvick Head in County Waterford.

An image of Henebry’s grocery shop in Portlaw, County Waterford. The shop was run by the siblings of Fr. Richard Henebry. The shop front signage spells the family name in Irish as ‘de Henebre’.

The original caption reads: ‘After the surrender the British soldiers with guns at the ready amid the ruins of Henry Street, at the right of the picture with canopy over the door, the bombed out Coliseum Variety Theatre’.

A photographic print of the destruction on Henry Street after the 1916 Rising.

A view of the high altar of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny in c.1910.

A view of the high altar of the Church of St. Francis (taken from an elevated position) during Mass. The celebrant is Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap.

A postcard print showing the High Altar in St. Patrick's Roman Cathedral in Armagh. The design of the marble altar was by the Irish architect George Coppinger Ashlin (1837-1921). The postcard was printed by H. Allison & Son, Armagh.

An image of High Street, Killarney, County Kerry, in about 1955.

An image of HMS 'Vanguard', a British Navy battleship at Cape Town Harbour in South Africa. The ship was used as a royal yacht to transport King George VI and his family to South Africa, the first visit to the country by a reigning British monarch. HMS 'Vanguard' arrived in Cape Town on 17 February, escorted by the South African frigates 'Good Hope', 'Transvaal' and 'Natal' on the last leg of her voyage. The warship departed Cape Town on 22 April 1947.