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A image captioned 'On the Kenmare Road near Glengarriff' in County Cork.

A view of the banks of the River Liffey and the Islandbridge area in Dublin. The Wellington Monument obelisk in the Phoenix Park is visible in the background. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Showery Weather'.

An image captioned 'Dominion Monarch / 1947'. The photograph shows a line-crossing ceremony on the ship, an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. Built in England between 1937 and 1939, the 'Dominion Monarch' was a passenger liner which regularly operated services between Britain and ports in the southern hemisphere (particularly in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).

Two women walking along a forested road probably near the Capuchin Friary at Rochestown in County Cork.

An image of individuals (possibly a family group) on a beach near Cape Town in South Africa.

A profile of the sculptor Oliver Sheppard by John Crampton Walker published in ‘Irish Life’ (19 January 1917). The article includes an image of Sheppard’s ‘The Death of Cuchulainn’ (1911-2).

An image of Oldtown Bridge and in the distance, the Cathedral of St. Eunan and St. Columba in Letterkenny, County Donegal. Oldtown Bridge, a triple-arch road bridge over the River Swilly, was built in about 1720.

Albumen cabinet card images of the exterior and interior of the old Capuchin chapel on Church Street. These are photographs of the chapel constructed in 1796. The building consisted of a nave with two short transepts. The main entrance to the chapel was from Bow Street which was then a busy thoroughfare near Smithfield Market. The foundation stone for the present-day St. Mary of the Angels (which was built on the site of the old Chapel) was laid on 12 June 1868. With a cover annotated by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.: ‘Photos of old Capuchin Church, Church St., exterior and interior’. Original albumen cabinet card images by Chancellor Studios, 55 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. The file includes later (and over-sized) reproductions of these prints by E. Brook-Smith, 140 Stephen’s Green, Dublin. It appears that Brook-Smith had a studio at this location from c.1909-19.

An image of the Old Church Cemetery near Cobh in County Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Old Church Cove, Lusitania Victims’. The photograph is also dated (26 August 1935).