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A postcard view of Ashford Castle (referred to as 'Ashford House, Cong') situated on the Galway-Mayo border. The original caption refers to the purchase of the castle by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798-1868) in 1852. Reference is also made to the extensive renovation work carried out by Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840-1915).

A postcard print image of the Healy Pass near Glengarriff in County Cork. The caption provides the full name of the road. It was named after Timothy Michael Healy (1885-1931), a Cork-born nationalist politician, and the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

An image of the destroyed exterior of the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (a De La Salle Brothers’ school) in Madrid, Spain. The building was destroyed during anticlerical riots in the Spanish capital in May 1931. Between 10 May and 13 May 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were destroyed in an event known as the 'Burning of the Convents'.

Postcard print of Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, in c.1940.

A postcard print of Inch Strand, County Kerry, in c.1930.

A view of St. Mary’s Dominican Church, Pope’s Quay, Cork, in about 1945.

An image of the Old Church Cemetery near Cobh in County Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Old Church Cove, Lusitania Victims’. The photograph is also dated (26 August 1935).

A view of Derrynane House in County Kerry, the ancestral home of the Irish nationalist politician, Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847). An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The home of The Liberator / Daniel O'Connell / at Derrynane, Co. Kerry'.

A view of the ruins of Timoleague Franciscan Friary in County Cork in about 1964.

A view of the small mortuary chapel commissioned and designed in 1857 by Charles Bianconi (1786-1875) on the death of his daughter. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Bianconi's Mortuary Chapel / In this small chapel, near Cashel (at Boherlahan, County Tipperary) lies the remains of Charles Bianconi, of stage coach fame. He had this chapel erected as a family burial ground'.