A view of the Strawberry Beds in Dublin in about 1910. Running alongside the northern banks of the River Liffey between the villages of Chapelizod and Lucan, the Strawberry Beds were so-called on account of the fruits which were cultivated and sold there in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was also traditionally a popular honeymoon destination for Dubliners. The bridge, spanning the River Liffey, is the Farmleigh Bridge, also known as the Silver Bridge, Guinness Bridge or Strawberry Beds Bridge. It is now disused and largely derelict.
A clipping of an image from the ‘Sunday Herald’ (7 May 1916) purporting to show a ‘Dublin street battle actually in progress’ during the Rising. The caption also suggests that the image is ‘the only snapshot yet published of the fighting in Dublin’.
An image of a group of Capuchin friars in the front garden of Ard Mhuire Friary in County Donegal. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Students, Ards'. The group includes Fr. Conrad O'Donovan OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap.
A clipping of an article referring in critical terms to the praise given to Éamon de Valera and his government by the Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945). The article is taken from the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ (28 March 1944).
A photographic print of the surviving members of the First Oireachtas held in 1897. The photograph was taken in College Park in Dublin in 1947. The group includes Tadhg Ó Donnchadha (‘Torna’), Seosamh Ó Conchubhair, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha (‘An Seabhac’), and Seamus MacManus.
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.
A telegram from Nora Ashe which reads ‘Prisoners all here. Frank [Fahy] in great form’. The telegram is most likely to addressed to Frank Fahy’s wife (Anna Fahy) in Tralee, County Kerry.
A telegram referring to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty by Dáil Éireann on 7 January 1922. The telegram reads ‘Roche, Presbytery, Winchester St., [St Helier] Jersey / Treaty ratified majority seven / Jim’. (Volume page 152).
