An image of the ‘Irish Plane’ docked at Cape Town in South Africa. The ‘Irish Plane’ was built in 1949 by William Gray & Company in Hartlepool, England, for Irish Shipping Limited. This state-owned company was established in 1941, soon after the outbreak of the Second World War with the object of providing the ships necessary to supply Ireland’s import needs. The 'Irish Plane' served only a short number of years with the Irish Shipping company. It was sold to a Pakistani shipping firm in January 1960 and was eventually scrapped in Karachi in 1971
A small collection of records relating to the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU), a unionist political organisation, established in 1885 to oppose the Home Rule movement. The section also includes records relating to the ILPU’s successor body, the Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA).
A view of the Irish Lightship ‘Comet’ at Dún Laoghaire in about 1960. The ship was built in 1904 by J. Reid in Glasgow and measured ninety-six feet in length and twenty-three feet in breadth. The light vessel was decommissioned in 1965 and sold (for £7,000) to the shipbroking firm of Turner and Hickman in Glasgow. The ship later had a colourful history as an off-shore pirate radio station used by Radio Scotland.
A postcard print image of a large crowd assembled on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin. The caption to the original postcard image (printed by Chancellor Photographic Studio) reads ‘Irish Language Procession, September 19, 1909’. In the background of the print, the statue of William Smith O’Brien (1803-1864), a nationalist politician and Irish language activist, stands in its original position near the junction of O’Connell Bridge with Westmoreland Street and D’Olier Street. It was moved to its present location on O’Connell Street in 1929.
A postcard print image of a large crowd assembled on Sackville Street (later O’Connell Street) in Dublin. The caption to the original postcard image (printed by Chancellor Photographic Studio) reads ‘Irish Language Procession, September 19, 1909’. (Volume page 27).
The Irish Landowner’s Convention was set up in early 1888 to protect the interests of landowners in the face of agrarian agitation and legislative reforms which enabled tenant proprietorship.
A clipping from the 'Irish Independent' (6 Sept. 1913) showing Fr. Jarlath Hynes OSFC (left) at the funeral service for some of the victims of the Church Street tenement disaster. The funeral services were held in St. Michan's Church on Halston Street.
A clipping from the 'Irish Independent' (6 Sept. 1913) showing the funeral procession for victims of the Church Street tenement disaster crossing Grattan Bridge.
An image of a large group of Irish pilgrims at an audience with Pope Pius XII (1876-1958) at Castel Gandolfo just outside Rome on 20 September 1953. The pilgrims are members of the Third Order of St. Francis, a religious fraternity of lay men and women attached to the Franciscan Friary on Merchants’ Quay in Dublin. Several Franciscan friars (Order of Friars Minor) can be seen in the image. The individual (with the spectacles) immediately to the right of Pius XII is William MacNeely (1889-1963), the Bishop of Raphoe from 1923 until 1963.
