An image of a turf-cutting competition at Allenwood in County Kildare. A typescript annotation on the reverse notes that the image was taken in June 1942.
A view of stone fishing huts on Achill Island off County Mayo in about 1940. A manuscript annotation on the print reads 'Seasonal fishing caves on Achill'.
A view of the railway station in the small village of Recess (in Irish ‘Sraith Saileach’) in County Galway. The station is located on the northwest corner of Glendollagh Lough. It was one of several stations that ran through central Connemara on the Galway to Clifden line of the Midland Great Western Railway which opened in 1895.
A view of the courtyard of the eighteenth-century Commercial Buildings on Dame Street in Dublin. The building was used a meeting place by the Ouzel Galley Society, a representative body of city merchants which later became the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. It was demolished to enable the construction of the Central Bank of Ireland building in the 1970s.
An image of the ruins of Killarney House in County Kerry in about 1945. Built in 1872 for Valentine Browne, 4th Earl of Kenmare (1825-1905), this Elizabethan-Revival manor house was built on an elevated site overlooking Lough Leane. It was destroyed by fire in 1913 and was never rebuilt.
A view of the town of Newport in County Mayo. The seven arches bridge (formerly a viaduct for the Achill branch of the Midland Great Western Railway line) and St. Patrick's Church are prominent in the image.