A view of the Mercy Hospital (now Mercy University Hospital) in Cork in 1938. The caption to the photograph notes that the building was ‘once the Mansion House’, a reference to the fact that the oldest part of the hospital was built between 1764 and 1767 and that the original building served as the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Cork until 1842.
The interior of Corcomroe Abbey, an early thirteenth-century Cistercian monastery situated in the Burren region of County Clare. The image shows detail from the stonework in the interior of the abbey, looking east through the choir and into the presbytery. An annotation on the reverse indicates that the photographer was T. F. Geoghegan.
The Ecclesiastical Review on morality of hunger-strike / Rev. Michael Hogan SJ. Reprinted from 'The Irish World', May 1933. Printed by the Catholic Book Publishing Co., 43-45 East 12th Street, New York City.
A scene from a mass gathering held in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 23 June 1929 to mark the centenary of Catholic Emancipation. The caption to the photograph indicates that an individual had fainted (on what was, by all accounts, a very warm day) and required some medical assistance.