A view of the town of Drogheda in County Louth in about 1955. Visible in the print is the River Boyne (Drogheda is the last bridging point on the river before it enters the Irish Sea). Prominent buildings include (on the right) St. Peter's Church situated on an elevated site on the north side of West Street in the centre of the town.
A view of the waterfall called the ‘Dropping Well’ near Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, England. An original file number (2737) is extant on the print.
An image of St Columba's Church in Drumcliffe in County Sligo. An annotation on the reverse of the print notes that the church graveyard is the final resting place of William Butler Yeats.
A pictorial record album of the destruction of parts of Dublin during the Rising. Published in Dublin by Mecredy, Percy and Co., Ltd. Title from cover. At head of cover title: ‘Passed for transmission abroad by the official press bureau’. Caption title: ‘The Sinn Fein rebellion’.
A clipping of a letter from the artist Paul Henry regarding the need to find an appropriate location in Dublin for a gallery to house the paintings from the Hugh Lane bequest. The letter was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (4 October 1922).
An election flier printed during the Dublin College Green by-election which was held on 11 June 1915. The flier was produced by John Dillon Nugent (1869-1940), a Dublin Corporation councillor and a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. The flier accuses Nugent’s opponent Thomas Farren (1879-1955), a leading trade unionist, of ‘Larkinism’ and pro-German sympathies.
Members of the Dublin Corporation Lane Bequest Claim Committee including (fourth from the right) Mary Sheehy Kettle (1884-1967), widow of Tom Kettle, J.J. Howe, secretary to the City Manager, and J.J. Reynolds, councillor.
A clipping of two election fliers for the County Dublin constituency. The fliers were produced for Darrel Figgis (an Independent Pro-Treaty candidate) and Thomas Johnson (the Labour Party candidate). The advertisements appeared in the ‘Irish Independent’ (15 June 1922).
A Dublin Fire Brigade tender near the Four Courts following the assault on the building at the start of the Civil War on 1 July 1922. A manuscript caption on the reverse of the print reads ‘Rebel garrison surrenders / Four Courts in flames after great explosion / the Four Courts, the republican fortress in Dublin, unconditionally surrendered to the Free State troops yesterday, and the garrison of about 150 are now in Mountjoy Prison / Photograph shows a fire engine at work’.