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A postcard print titled on image face 'Kilmore Quay Village and Saltee Island Sea Bird Sanctuary, Co. Wexford / From the Rosslare Strand Bird Life Film'.

A view of the round tower and the adjacent St. MacCullin’s Anglican church in the town of Lusk in North County Dublin in about 1955.

An image of Taaffe’s Castle in the coastal town of Carlingford in County Louth in about 1950. This fortified town house was purportedly built in the early sixteenth century by the Taffee's, an affluent merchant family.

(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.

Letter from Liam Mellows, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, to his mother. Written at 5 a.m., shortly before his execution. It reads: ‘The time is short and much I would like to say must go unsaid. But you will understand in such moments heart speaks to heart. At 3.30 this morning we (Dick Barrett, Rory O’Connor, Joe McKelvey and I) were informed that we were to be “executed as a reprisal”. … I go to join Tone and Emmett, the Fenians, Tom Clarke, Connolly, Pearse, Kevin Barry and Childers. My last thoughts will be on God, and Ireland, and you. …. I had hopes that some day I might rest in some quiet place – beside Grandfather and Grandmother in Castletown (Co. Wexford), not amidst the wordly pomps [sic] of Glasnevin but if it is to be the prison clay, it is all the sweeter for many of our best lie here …’.

A view of the coastal village of Clogherhead in County Lough in about 1940. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Co. Louth / Clogherhead - in the village street'.

An image of a roadside spring in County Meath in about 1960. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Built for passing traffic a century ago in Meath'.

A view of Macroom Castle on the banks of the River Sullane in County Cork in about 1930. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads '"Reflections", Macroom, Co. Cork / by Ita McNally, 11 South Mall, Cork'.

A view of Lynch's Castle, a sixteenth-century town house, situated at the junction of Shop Street and Upper Abbeygate Street in Galway city.

A view of Cobh Harbour in County Cork. The Cathedral Church of St. Colman is prominent in the image.