Six dray (or draft) horses standing harnessed to carts hauling large kegs at the Jameson Distillery, Bow Street, Dublin. This is an image of some of the working horses used at the Jameson Distillery in Dublin, in about 1905. The photograph was probably taken from atop of the Capuchin Friary which fronted onto Bow Street.
‘Royal Standard Plates, Cadett & Neall Ltd., Wealstone, Middlesex’ box containing six plates. The file includes portraits of mostly named Capuchin friars. Identifying labels are attached to most of the plates. 34 (a) Br. Stanislaus Walsh OSFC (1842-1910). 34 (b) Fr. Fidelis Neary OFM Cap. (d. 22 June 1932). The plate is severely cracked in the upper left-hand portion. 34 (c) The Most Rev. Ignatius Perisco OSFC, Archbishop of Damiella (1823-1896). This is most likely a print taken from published work or a reproduction of a painting. 34 (d) Half-length portrait of Fr. Fidelis Neary OFM Cap. (d. 22 June 1932). 34 (e) Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap. (d. 27 Apr. 1930). 34 (f) An unidentified Capuchin friar in a seated position. The identifying label has been covered over by tape. A large crack is running vertically through the plate.
Two Capuchin friars and two dogs in the snow-covered garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin. With an annotated envelope suggesting that this is likely a poor quality image.
A flier from the Irish Drapers’ Assistants Association (IDAA) dated March 1906. The IDAA was founded by Michael O’Lehane (1873-1920), a Cork-born trade unionist. Unlike the more traditional trade unions O’Lehane was prepared to recruit women members. Out of a total effective membership of 4,000 in 1914, 1,400 IDAA members were women. It is noted in the flier that 40% of drapery employees in Dublin were female. The main objective of the IDAA was a reduction in the working hours per week. Reference is also made in the leaflet to the unhealthy working conditions endured by drapery employees and the risk particularly from tuberculosis.
A letter from Alfie Byrne to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. thanking him for a copy of the ‘The Capuchin Annual’. Byrne writes ‘many of the incidents mentioned are still fresh in my memory as I was present at the reading of the document at the Corporation meeting on April 19th 1916. I was also on Bachelor’s Walk on that famous Sunday of the Howth gun running only as a sightseer?’
