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A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.

A photographic print of Gaelic football teams parading before a match in Croke Park, Dublin.

A view of the exterior of the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in Dublin in about 1940.

A view of a Great Southern Railways’ (GSR) steam locomotive transiting the Irish countryside in about 1940.

A view of Blarney Castle, a fifteenth-century tower house, in County Cork.

An image of Leinster Lawn situated on the Merrion Square side of Leinster House, the seat of the Oireachtas. The Cenotaph commemorating Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, and Kevin O'Higgins, and John Henry Foley’s statue of Albert, the Prince Consort, are visible in the image.

An aerial view of St. Patrick's College in Maynooth in County Kildare. The image shows Stoyte House, the College Chapel and St. Joseph's Square on what is now the South Campus of Maynooth University.

A view of Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, at night in about 1930.

An image of the Capuchin Central Library (Biblioteca Centrale Cappuccini) in Rome in about 1930. Founded in the second half of the nineteenth century, the library was at this time located on the Via Boncompagni in the centre of Rome. In 1968, the library was relocated to the International College of St Lawrence of Brindisi situated on the outskirts of the city. The library has a stock of books and documents totaling 120,000 catalogued items including works by Capuchin authors, material on the early history and ministries of the Order, Franciscan publications, and many rare medieval and early modern books and items of ecclesiastical interest.

A view of Waterford city from the opposite (Ferrybank) side of the River Suir in about 1955.