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.
The scene on Upper Church Street shortly after Kevin Barry’s arrest. A Dublin medical student, Barry was an Irish Volunteer who took part in an attack on a military truck outside a bakery on Church Street in which three British soldiers were killed in September 1920. He was captured at the scene, court-martialled and hanged in Mountjoy Jail on the morning of Monday, 1 November.
A photographic print of Br. Felix Harte OFM Cap. (1861-1935) with Irish Free State soldiers inspecting damage caused after the attack on the Four Courts in Dublin in July 1922.
A view of the exterior of Saint Patrick's Catholic Cathedral on North Street in Skibbereen in County Cork. Located in the Diocese of Cork and Ross, this neo-classical church was built between 1826 and 1832 to a design by the Cork-born architect, Michael Augustine O'Riordan (c.1783-1848), a Presentation Brother.
A view of the exterior of the Pro-Cathedral of Saint Nicholas located on the corner of Middle Street and Lower Abbeygate Street in Galway. The building was a Catholic place of worship from 1816 until the new Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and Saint Nicholas was opened in 1965. The former Saint Nicholas Cathedral was deconsecrated and the building now houses a variety of retail outlets.