A view of the small harbour at Roundstone, Connemara, County Galway, in about 1960. Roundstone (in Irish, ‘Cloch na Rón’, meaning ‘seal’s rock’) was built in the 1820s by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), a Scottish civil engineer who had settled in the locality.
A colour-tinted postcard print of the village of Cushendall in County Antrim. The text side of the card is partially torn away. The legible portion of the text reads ‘Couldn’t manage a letter – nowhere like the fair hills [and] Glens of Antrim for a decent holiday / weather gorgeous’. The card is dated 26 August 1931.
An image of construction work on the Pollaphuca (Poulaphouca) electricity generating station in County Wicklow. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'Poulaphouca Water Scheme / unfinished / awaiting completion / showing turbines'. The photograph is credited to Frank O'Brien, Fermoy, County Cork.
Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., the editor of ‘The Capuchin Annual’, and (right) Captain Seán Brennan, Éamon de Valera’s Aide de Camp, at the funeral of the Irish painter Sir John Lavery in Mount Jerome Cemetery in Dublin in January 1941. The print is credited to Charles C. Fennell.