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 view of the lake at the front of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork. Two friars (one under an umbrella) are seated at the lake edge. One appears to be feeding swans on the lake. The annotated cover provides a date of 1905.
A view of a group of people (including the station master and children) at the Rochestown Railway Station, County Cork. The annotated cover reads ‘Group at Rochestown Station before completion of loop line’.
A view of several Capuchin friars walking in a walled garden. The group includes (from left to right): Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968). His hand is partially obscuring his face. Fr. Augustine Hayden OFM Cap. (1870-1954) Fr. Matthew O'Connor OFM Cap. (1859-1930) Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap. (1876-1965)
'Poblacht na hEireann (War News)', No. 47, 24 August 1922. This edition was published two days after the death of Michael Collins, the National Army's Commander-in-Chief, at Béal na Bláth in County Cork. Its editorial on Collins commences: 'Yesterday the Nation was shocked by the news of Michael Collins death … now his boundless energy and inexhaustible resource are no more ...' This is one of the last issues of 'War News' produced by Erskine Childers in West Cork before THE encircling National Army made anti-Treaty positions untenable, and he had to move the printing press into a vacant cottage at Ballyvourney. Helping him to print his news sheets were Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Sean Hendrick (all famous writers), and R. Longford who later established the Lee Press in Cork city.
An unidentified family group (six standing and five sitting or kneeling). This is an informal outdoor portrait of a family group probably taken in the first decade of the twentieth century.
A large group of both men and women (both sitting and standing) outside the main door to St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street, Dublin. Some of the men in the back row appear to be wearing temperance badges. They are probably part of a lay temperance association attached to the church.
An image of (first on the right) Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. (1877-1925) with a group of students possibly at a hurling match in Rochestown, County Cork.
