Great Blasket Island from Slea Head, County Kerry
- IE CA CP/1/1/3/16/11
- Deel
- c.1945
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image showing a view of Great Blasket Island (An Blascaod Mór) as seen from Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry.
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Great Blasket Island from Slea Head, County Kerry
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image showing a view of Great Blasket Island (An Blascaod Mór) as seen from Slea Head on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry.
Hotel Metropole and Post Office, Dublin. Before and After the 1916 Rising
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
‘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.
Hurlers at St. Enda’s School, Rathfarnham, Dublin
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
An image of hurlers at St. Enda’s School, or Scoil Éanna, a secondary school for boys established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908.
1916 Rising Prisoners in Stafford Jail
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A large group of Irish prisoners detained in Stafford Jail in England following the 1916 Rising. The print is annotated on the reverse: ‘photograph believed to be the largest group of 1916 men taken’. Stafford Jail was converted for use as a military detention barracks and was used to hold Irish internees before their transfer to Frongoch Internment Camp in North Wales.
Amnesty of 1916 Prisoners, Westland Row, Dublin
Part of Irish Capuchin Archives
A photograph of a large crowd outside Westland Row Station (now Pearse Station) in Dublin, awaiting the return of released republican prisoners. Many of the prisoners had fought in the Easter Rising of 1916.
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A large crowd welcomes the return of Harry Boland (central figure with straw hat) to Dublin following his release from prison in 1917. Boland had been arrested following the 1916 Rising and was sentenced to five years penal servitude serving his time first in Dartmoor Jail and later in Lewes Prison.
Funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney
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The funeral procession of Terence MacSwiney outside St. George’s Cathedral, Southwark, London, on 28 October 1920. MacSwiney was a republican Lord Mayor of Cork who died on 25 October 1920 in Brixton Prison after a lengthy hunger strike. As chaplain to the Mayor, Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap., a Capuchin friar, was at his side during his final days. He was also a prominent mourner at MacSwiney’s funeral. Fr. Dominic can be seen walking directly behind the carriage.
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Photographic prints compiled for an article by Fr. Kilian Walsh O. Cist. titled ‘Graiguenamanagh Abbey: History and Present Crisis’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1970), pp 73-80. The file contains black and white prints of Graiguenamanagh Abbey, County Kilkenny. The prints are credited to Fr. Athanasius, Mount Mellerary Abbey, Cappoquin, County Waterford. The prints have (partially detached) typescript annotations on the reverse
New Light on Old Dublin / Winetavern Street Excavations
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Photographic prints compiled for an article by Breandán Ó Riordáin titled ‘New Light on Old Dublin’, 'The Capuchin Annual' (1972), pp 53-63. The file includes prints of various artefacts found in excavations at Winetavern Street and at High Street, Dublin. With a printed sketch map of the areas excavated
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A view of the original Abbey Theatre building in Dublin in about 1949. The Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904 by W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory. In its early years, the theatre was closely associated with the writers of the Irish Literary Revival including Yeats, Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey.