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An image of Capuchin friars outside a school in rural India. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘In the Bhil land / school in the jungle’. The Bhil are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting various parts of central and western India.

An image of the exterior of the Church of St. Francis and the adjoining Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny. The church is decorated to mark the tercentenary celebrations of the arrival of the Capuchins in Kilkenny in 1948.

An image of a presentation by Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. (1910-1958) to Captain Robert Monteith (1879-1956), the veteran Irish republican.

The consecration of Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin, on 8 Sept. 1950. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The Papal Nuncio and Dr. William MacNeely, Bishop of Raphoe / Fathers Andrew and Brendan'.

An image of the funeral procession of the Most Rev. Paschal Robinson OFM, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, on O'Connell Street in Dublin.

A photographic print of James Connolly (standing at far right) at the funeral of the veteran Fenian, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa in August 1915. O’Rossa had died in a hospital on Staten Island, New York. When he died Tom Clarke asked for his body to be returned to Ireland for burial. The funeral marked the first occasion when Connolly and the Irish Citizen Army appeared in a formal alliance with the Irish Volunteers. O'Donovan Rossa’s funeral was one of the largest political commemorations ever witnessed in Ireland. It was notable for Pádraig Pearse’s famous graveside oration.

An image of a holly seller in Cork in about 1940.

A view of a group of children dancing a jig on Great Blasket Island (An Bhlascaod Mór) off the coast of County Kerry in about 1940.

An image of two inhabitants of the Aran Islands in about 1940. The title of the print is ‘seanchas’, an old Irish word referring to the act of storytelling and conveying an ancient tale handed down by oral tradition. A ‘seanchaí’ was a storyteller or a custodian of this tradition.

A view of the landscape around Slemish, a small mountain near Ballymena in County Antrim in about 1935. According to tradition, Slemish (or Slieve Mish as it was historically called), is the first known Irish home of Saint Patrick.