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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.

A view of the main street (looking towards St. Joseph’s Church) in Clifden, County Galway, in about 1950.

A view of the ‘Innisfallen’ at Penrose Quay, Cork, leaving for Fishguard in Wales in about 1935.

A view of the Falls Road, Belfast, looking towards the Diamond Cinema, in about 1950.

A photographic print of a large crowd at a musical performance at the Band Hollow in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, in c.1945. In the early twentieth century, the Dublin United Tramways Company sponsored the performances of brass bands on the bandstand in the Hollow not far from the Zoo in the Phoenix Park.

An aerial view of Marina Quay and the River Lee taken from the Montenotte area in Cork. The original print is endorsed with an annotation on the reverse affirming that it was ‘passed by the censor’ suggesting that the photograph was taken some time between 1939 and 1945.

A view of Victoria Quay, Dublin, in about 1930. The frontage of the quay is mainly occupied by the Guinness Brewery site.

A view of the town of Ballina, County Mayo, in about 1940. The Nephin mountains (located to the west of the town) are visible in the background of the image.

Photographic prints of pencil portraits by Seán O’Sullivan RHA (1906-1964) of Irish nationalists (principally the leaders of the 1916 Rising). The file includes images of Seán Heuston, Michael Mallin, William Pearse, Seán MacBride, Edward Daly, Thomas Ashe, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Michael O’Hanrahan, Patrick Pearse, Éamonn Ceannt, Roger Casement, James Connolly, Liam Mellows, Con Colbert, Thomas MacDonagh, Tom Clarke, Seán MacDermott, John Daly and Thomas Kent. The original portraits were created by O’Sullivan between 1936 and 1942 and are held in the National Museum of Ireland. There were reproduced in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1966).