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A view of the exterior of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Knock, County Mayo, in about 1950.

An image of the early medieval monastic site at Clonmacnoise in County Offaly. The photograph was taken by James Roland Bainbridge (1891-1967).

A view of O’Connell Street from atop Nelson’s Pillar in about 1930.

An image of workers at the Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake in Dublin in 1945.

The corner of Washington Street and the Grand Parade in Cork in about 1935. The family-owned business, T.W. Finn & Co. (now known as Finn’s Corner), is still a well-known sports clothing retailer in the city.

A view of Capel Street, Dublin, looking towards Parliament Street and City Hall in about 1945.

A view of a family group outside Eason’s Bookstore at the corner of Middle Abbey Street and O’Connell Street, Dublin, in about 1940

A view of Upper O’Connell Street in Dublin. The image was taken from atop Nelson’s Pillar.

A crowned skull on the sarcophagus of Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740) framing the entrance to the Maria Theresa vault in the Imperial Crypt, Capuchin Friary, Vienna, Austria.

A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.