‘Hotel Metropole and Post Office, Dublin. Before and After’. In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the Scottish photographic publishers Valentine and Sons issued a series of postcard images depicting the destruction of buildings on Sackville Street and at other locations around Dublin.
A clipping of a photograph of a horse killed in St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin during the Easter Rising. The caption credits the image to the ‘Illustrated Sunday Herald’.
An image of Hore Abbey (or Hoare Abbey, sometimes known as St. Mary's), a ruined Cistercian monastery in County Tipperary. A typescript annotation on the reverse reads 'Through the window of the Rock of Cashel / A snap through one of the round windows of the Rock of Cashel showing Hore Abbey in the left corner'.
A hopsack bag reputed to have been used by an Irish Volunteer during the 1916 Rising. Retrieved from the gallery of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin.
A flier with the text of a satirical ballad concerning the desire for Irish independence and referencing the Lord Lieutenant Viscount John French and Chief Secretary for Ireland Ian Stewart Macpherson. To be sung to the air of ‘I don't mind if I do". The first line reads ‘Lord French and MacPherson, old Long and old Short …’.
A photographic print of large crowd assembled on O’Connell Bridge and around the O’Connell Monument for a Home Rule demonstration in Dublin. The event was held on 31 March 1912. The large banner on the platform at the base of the O’Connell Monument reads ‘Ireland A Nation’. The rally was organised by the moderate nationalists in the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Photographic prints of Fr. David Kelleher OFM Cap. (1912-1995) and Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958) blessing a Holy Year Cross atop Muckish Mountain (Derryveagh Mountain Range, County Donegal) on the Feast of the Assumption (15 August) in 1951. The file includes a note written by Fr. David giving information on some of the people in one of the photographic prints. See also CA DL/6/10.
Photograph of the Capuchin friary adjacent to Holy Trinity Church in Cork. An empty jarvey stands outside the entrance to the Church. Photographer/Studio: E. O’Callaghan, 2 Parliament Street, Cork.