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An image of (first on the right) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (1877-1925) with a group of students possibly at a hurling match in Rochestown, County Cork.

(Left) Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. (1875-1953) standing beside a diocesan cleric. Fr. Angelus is seemingly wearing a temperance association medal. The pair appear to be at the head of a procession which may have been connected with the temperance movement. Two women wearing traditional shawls stand in the near background.

A view of the interior and high altar of Rochestown Friary Church in about 1910.

A view of the orchard and gardens at the rear of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork, in c.1910.

An image of Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap. (front) and (directly behind) Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. walking in a temperance procession. A large banner depicting Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC (1790-1856), the apostle of temperance, is prominently displayed in the procession.

Two plates showing a view of a walled road leading to Rochestown Capuchin Friary. A horse and cart (with a visible advertisement ‘Delicious’) is stopped on the road. With an annotated cover.

An image of the Corpus Christi procession at the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown. This annual celebration held at the friary attracted huge crowds from both the city and county in the first two decades of the twentieth century. People travelled by train, by trap or walked to the friary from Cork city. It was the most popular event of the year in Rochestown until 1926 when the first Cork city procession was held.

A view of a woman standing on a horse-drawn cart. The annotated cover reads ‘Mare & foal farm & foal’.

A view of the Strawberry Beds in Dublin in about 1910. Running alongside the northern banks of the River Liffey between the villages of Chapelizod and Lucan, the Strawberry Beds were so-called on account of the fruits which were cultivated and sold there in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was also traditionally a popular honeymoon destination for Dubliners. The bridge, spanning the River Liffey, is the Farmleigh Bridge, also known as the Silver Bridge, Guinness Bridge or Strawberry Beds Bridge. It is now disused and largely derelict.

A view of a mother cradling a young child on a hillside overlooking a traditional rural cottage in a forested location probably in County Cork.