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A view of the town of Buncrana in County Donegal. A typescript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Looking towards Buncrana, County Donegal, in the distance is Dunree Head which is situated at the entrance to Lough Swilly'.

A view of Carrick-on-Suir, a town in County Tipperary in about 1955. The two bridges over the river in Carrick-on-Suir are visible in the photograph. In the foreground stands the Dillon Bridge, a road bridge crossing built between 1879 and 1880 and named after John Dillon (1851-1927), an Irish nationalist politician. The historic ‘Old Bridge’ (built 1447) stands slightly further up-river.

A view of the harbour at Boatstrand in County Waterford. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'The picturesque little harbour of Boatstrand, County Waterford, on the coast road between Tramore and Dungarvan'.

An image of the destroyed exterior of the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (a De La Salle Brothers’ school) in Madrid, Spain. The building was destroyed during anticlerical riots in the Spanish capital in May 1931. Between 10 May and 13 May 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were destroyed in an event known as the 'Burning of the Convents'.

Postcard print of Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, in c.1940.

A postcard print of Inch Strand, County Kerry, in c.1930.

A view of the Queen Victoria Statue outside Leinster House, Dublin, in about 1935. The bronze statue with three attendants, depicting Hibernia at War, Hibernia at Peace, and Fame, was designed by the Irish sculptor John Hughes and sat at the Kildare Street entrance to Leinster House (the seat of the Irish Parliament) from 1908 to 1948. Following its removal, it was stored in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The statute was eventually re-erected in 1987 in front of the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia.

A photoengraving showing tenement dwellers in Dublin. The original photographic print is credited to Thomas F. Geoghegan (Essex Quay).

A pictorial postcard print of the town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford in about 1945. Some of the prominent buildings in the image include Enniscorthy Castle (centre), a late sixteenth-century fortified tower house, St. Aidan’s Cathedral (background, centre-left), the largest building in Ireland designed (1843) by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), the architect responsible for the interior of the Palace of Westminster in London, and St. Mary’s Church of Ireland (left), a Gothic Revival style church built between 1840 and 1850 to the designs of Joseph Welland (1798-1860), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland.

An image of a farmer using a horse-drawn plough in rural Ireland.