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A view of the Marina electricity generating station on the south bank of the River Lee in Cork. Commissioned in 1954, the station is situated in the city's docklands close to Páirc Uí Chaoimh and to the former Ford factory site. The station was closed in September 2018.

An image of a fisherman on Cape Clear Island (‘Oileán Chléire’) off the coast of County Cork.

A print titled 'Road through The Claddagh, Galway', in about 1940.

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’. 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.

An image of hurlers at St. Enda’s School, or Scoil Éanna, a secondary school for boys established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908.

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.

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.

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.

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.