The original caption reads: ‘After the surrender the British soldiers with guns at the ready amid the ruins of Henry Street, at the right of the picture with canopy over the door, the bombed out Coliseum Variety Theatre’.
An image of Henebry’s grocery shop in Portlaw, County Waterford. The shop was run by the siblings of Fr. Richard Henebry. The shop front signage spells the family name in Irish as ‘de Henebre’.
A postcard print image of the Healy Pass near Glengarriff in County Cork. The caption provides the full name of the road. It was named after Timothy Michael Healy (1885-1931), a Cork-born nationalist politician, and the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.
Headed note paper titled: ‘Ards, Cashelmore, County Donegal, Ireland’. A manuscript annotation reads: ‘Note paper of Ards House ere it became a Friary’.
A view of horse-drawn hay harvesting in County Carlow in c.1935. The image shows the Brownshill Dolmen, a large megalithic portal tomb in County Carlow. The date of the tomb’s construction has been estimated to be between 4000 and 3000 BC. At one hundred metric tons, the dolmen’s cap stone is reputed to be the largest in Europe.