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The corner of Washington Street and the Grand Parade in Cork in about 1935. The family-owned business, T.W. Finn & Co. (now known as Finn’s Corner), is still a well-known sports clothing retailer in the city.

A view of Capel Street, Dublin, looking towards Parliament Street and City Hall in about 1945.

Images of the procession of friendly societies in the Italian Quarter of Hatton Garden in London in July 1931. The procession of Our Lady of Mount Carmel – held on the Sunday after 16 July – was Little Italy’s most important cultural event. Except during wartime, it has taken place annually since at least 1896. The procession was one of the first public manifestations of Catholicism given legal sanction since the Reformation in the sixteenth century. Queen Victoria was said to have granted special permission to the local police in Holborn to allow the parade to take place.

A postcard print of a large crowd assembled around a specially erected altar on Watling Street Bridge (now known as Rory O’More Bridge) over the River Liffey in Dublin during the Catholic Emancipation centenary celebrations in June 1929.

An image of the unveiling of a memorial marking the tercentenary of the synod which repudiated James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde (1610-1688), the former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and excommunicated his followers. The synod was held in the Franciscan Friary in Jamestown in August 1650.

A view of the Athlone Railway Bridge, also known as the White Bridge, a railway bridge over the River Shannon at Athlone in County Westmeath

A framed photograph of John McCormack (1884-1945), the Irish tenor, dedicated to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. It is signed by his wife, Lily McCormack, and dated 1946.

The arrival of President Seán T. O’Kelly and his wife Phyllis Bean Úi Cheallaigh at St. Andrew’s Church, Westland Row, Dublin, for a Mass commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1798 Rebellion.

(Left) Fr. James O'Mahony OFM Cap. (1897-1962) and (right) Fr. Ephrem O’Sullivan OFM Cap. (1904-1958) in the garden of the Church Street Friary in Dublin.

An image of a parade to encourage recruitment for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the outbreak of the First World War.