Photographic prints submitted by P.F. Lyons, 146 Cork Road, Waterford. Most of the prints are captioned. The file includes the following images:
• A view of Waterford City from the opposite (Ferrybank) side of the River Suir. • The Peoples’ Park, Waterford City. • The Quay at Waterford City. • Bunmahon, County Waterford. • Clodiagh River, Portlaw, County Waterford. • An Irish Cottage on the Road to Clifden, County Galway.
An image of a fisherman working on pots at the small harbour on Gola Island (‘Gabhla’) off the coast of Gweedore (‘Gaoth Dobhair’) in County Donegal. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Hughie McSweeney / Gola Island, County Donegal, works at his pots under the protecting shrine of Our Lady which was erected during the Marian Year [1954]’.
Three copies of a tribute by Éamon de Valera to E Company of the Irish Volunteers during the Howth Gun-Running in July 1914. The text is dated 6 Mar. 1948.
Draft articles by Patrick Cunningham, 24 Clare Street, Dublin, titled ‘Some inscriptions on stone’ and ‘Portmarnock’. The former article refers to gravestone inscriptions in Dublin. Cunningham notes that this article ‘is the result of research made by an unemployed worker’.
