Letter from Sinéad de Valera to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. referring to her anxiety over ‘the midnight raid and Saturday’s paper’. She adds ‘Dev is in Gloucester prison. I had a message from the Governor saying to send on some clothes’.
A newspaper clipping from the 'Santa Barbara Daily News' (21 Jan. 1925) containing photographs of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. at Mission Santa Inés in California.
A view of the horse fair in Ballinasloe, County Galway, in about 1940. Held annually in October, the Ballinasloe Fair is one of the oldest horse fairs in Europe dating back to at least the eighteenth century.
A view of a turner working on a traditional pole lathe in County Wexford. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Bowl-turning on the pole lathe. One of the oldest crafts and now almost extinct as an art'.
A family group around a traditional spinning wheel outside a cottage in rural Ireland in about 1945. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Ireland’s wheel of fortune'.