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A view of a fishing party on the shores of Lough Derg in County Tipperary in about 1960.

Five photos, 1878 church, in 1920 on installation of electric light

Flagged passage way where Bl. Charles retired to pray in private

A flier for the Fr. Michael O’Hickey Testimonial following his dismissal as Professor of Irish in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare. The testimonial reads ‘Dr. O’Hickey has for many years taken a leading part in the promotion of the national Language Movement, which, in the belief of men of a parties, has inspired Ireland with a new life and a new power. It is now some years since the plain-spoken and telling words of his published addresses on Irish Education laid the foundation of a great reform in the then almost hopelessly Anglicised school systems of Ireland’. The testimonial includes a lengthy list of subscribers who have contributed to the fund.

A flier for a performance of ‘Easter 1916’, a play by Montagu Slater, an English poet and playwright. The play covers the period from the 1913 lock-out to the1916 Rising by chronicling the life of James Connolly described as ‘Ireland’s first Socialist martyr’. A performance of Slater’s play was produced by the Left Theatre Company at the La Scala Theatre in Dublin in April 1936.

A flier promoting a production of John Millington Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin in July 1953. The production was staged by Cyril Cusack (1910-1993) with the actor himself in the title role (as Christy Mahon). The cast also included the Belfast-born actress Siobhán McKenna (as Pegeen Mike), with appearances by Jack McGowran, Walter Macken, and Cyril Cusack’s wife Maureen.

A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’), a small Irish neo-fascist party. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).

A printed flier from Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (‘architects of resurrection’) on the subject of partition. Includes references to the ideology of the party’s founder Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (1910-1991).

A flier for a meeting of the Alexander Martin Sullivan Tribute Fund held in the Mansion House, Dublin, on 24 October 1884.

A general election flier for Alfred ‘Alfie’ Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, in February 1932. The flier was published in the ‘Irish Independent’ (16 February 1932).