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An image of Tuohy's shop front in Portumna in County Galway.

An image of J. Canning's shop front in Portumna in County Galway.

An image of a Ford dealership on MacCurtain Street, Cork, in about 1945.

A view of James (Jamesie) O'Flaherty in Kilronan, the main settlement on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, in about 1935. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads: ‘A special kind of footgear has been developed for negotiating the slabs of limestone with which the island is covered. Called the “Pampootie”, it is contrived of raw cowhide. In the photograph, an islander is seen making himself a pair of these novel shoes’.

A view of two elderly women repairing shoes on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork, in about 1940.

An image taken from on board the 'Dominion Monarch' docked in the Port of Cape Town, South Africa. The ship in the distance is either the RMMV 'Stirling Castle' or her identical sister ship the RMMV 'Athlone Castle', British passenger liners built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast) for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to Cape Town.

Steamships at the quay in Waterford in about 1935.

A view of passengers relaxing on a promenade deck on-board a ship.

An aerial view of Shelbourne Park Football Stadium in Ringsend, Dublin, in September 1936. The print forms part of a series of photographs taken by the Irish Army Air Corps for the Geological Survey of Ireland.

A clipping of a montage of photographs showing the relations of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. The clipping includes photographs of Mary Sheehy Kettle, a sister-in-law of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and the wife of Tom Kettle, an Irish Party MP and British soldier. The caption notes that though Sheehy-Skeffington was ‘shot as a rebel – his death is now the subject of a court-martial’. It also notes that his wife’s family (Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington) has many family members serving in the British armed forces including Lieutenant Eugene Sheehy who ‘fought with the [Royal] Dublin fusiliers against the rebels’. The newspaper title from which the clipping was taken is not given.