A print titled ‘Small talk on Shandon Street, Cork’. The print is dated to c.1940. From the eighteenth century onward, Shandon Street was known as major site for commercial activity on the north-side of Cork. Some of the women in the image are wearing a traditional black shawl. Many working-class Irish women survived as street traders, selling fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothing. In Cork they were known as ‘the Shawlies’ because of the distinctive, traditional black shawls they wore on the streets.
A view of Sheares Street, near the Mardyke Park in Cork, in about 1940. The street was previously known as Nile Street before its name was changed to honour the Cork-born Sheares’ brothers, Henry (1753-1798) and John (1766-1798), members of the Society of United Irishmen who were executed following the 1798 Rebellion.
A clipping of a montage of photographs showing the relations of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. The clipping includes photographs of Mary Sheehy Kettle, a sister-in-law of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and the wife of Tom Kettle, an Irish Party MP and British soldier. The caption notes that though Sheehy-Skeffington was ‘shot as a rebel – his death is now the subject of a court-martial’. It also notes that his wife’s family (Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington) has many family members serving in the British armed forces including Lieutenant Eugene Sheehy who ‘fought with the [Royal] Dublin fusiliers against the rebels’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.
An aerial view of Shelbourne Park Football Stadium in Ringsend, Dublin, in September 1936. The print forms part of a series of photographs taken by the Irish Army Air Corps for the Geological Survey of Ireland.
An image taken from on board the 'Dominion Monarch' docked in the Port of Cape Town, South Africa. The ship in the distance is either the RMMV 'Stirling Castle' or her identical sister ship the RMMV 'Athlone Castle', British passenger liners built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast) for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to Cape Town.
