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A view of the quay at Queenstown, County Cork, in about 1900. The image shows the ‘Flying Fox’, a small paddle steamer and tug, used to ferry passengers and luggage to transatlantic liners before their passage to North America. The ‘Flying Fox’ was later involved in the rescue of survivors from the ‘Lusitania’ following an attack by a German submarine on 7 May 1915. The ‘Flying Fox’ was owned by the Clyde Shipping Company. She was built in 1885 and seems to have spent most of her life in Cork. During the First World War it was requisitioned by the British Admiralty as ‘Flying Fox II’. In 1919, she was sold to the Moville Steamship Company and worked in Lough Foyle until 1927, as the ‘Cragbue’.

An image of a local football team in Cape Town, South Africa.

Memorial card 'For P.H. Pearse, Thos. J. Clarke and Thos. MacDonagh who died for Ireland, 3rd May, 1916'

Memorial card 'For the souls of General P. H. Pearse and the Officers and Men of the Irish Republican Army'

An image of the ruins of Fore Abbey, an early Christian and Benedictine monastery, in County Westmeath.

Accounts, publicity material (catalogue) and correspondence relating to the Foreign Missionary Exhibition held at 86 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin, 17-25 June 1932. The official catalogue includes a list of items displayed by the friars relating to their missionary work in Africa and a photographic print of the Capuchin exhibition stand. The file also includes display cards and captions for the artefacts exhibited by the Capuchins at the event. The caption cards read as follows:
Witch Doctor’s Charms
Native Arrow
Royal Barge (Nalikwanda) / Paramount Chief and Four Paddlers
Native Dance Mask
Native Drum
Native Whip / (Made from the hide of the hippopotamus)
Model of Victoria Falls
Capuchin Mission Church, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia
A Model of a Mission Compound
Drawings and Carving by Children / South Africa
Carving in Ivory / Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia
Native Hut used as church at first out-station
Model of Motor Lorry / made with a penknife by one of the natives
Model of Hospital / lent by Sodality of St. Peter Claver, 49 North Great George’s Street, Dublin

A print titled ‘Fortune telling at Biddy’s Cove, Glengarriff’, County Cork, in c.1950.

An Anti-Treaty handbill: 'Forward the Nationals! ...'.

A photographic print captioned ‘Four Courts, 1916’.

An image of a destroyed building. No location is given but it is likely part of the Four Courts complex in Dublin. The building was largely destroyed during the assault by Provisional Government forces at the outset of the Civil War.