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Views of Parow parish, Flats District, Cape Town, South Africa. The prints are annotated on the reverse:
‘This is Parow in the Cape Flats. We could build a church and convent in the foreground. … The orphanage is in the distance’.
‘Parow / the ground in front is Vicariate-owned. Building on left is church. The other buildings are the orphanage’.
‘Three of the coloured orphans at the little Oratory, Parow’.
‘Fr. Kelly’s Church in the heart of the Flats. Typical flat country with occasional roads thro it. But he has very few residents in such a place. He is very old now and I expect we shall be asked to take it later. He has his own house and four mission churches attached – all built by his own parishioners’ hands’.

From a person called Hourigan, presumably the Parish Priest of Kilbehennny. Recommending Edmond Boland.

A view of the northern side of Parnell Square, Dublin, in about 1940. To the left is the Rotunda Gardens, a Georgian square situated at the northern end of O’Connell Street. A sizeable portion of the gardens were later used as the site for the National Garden of Remembrance in the 1960s. The Hugh Lane Gallery is situated in the building recessed at the right, with the Coláiste Mhuire buildings at the far end of the street.

A copy of the ‘Report of the Special Commission, 1888 / presented to both houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty / Special Commission to Inquire into Charges and Allegations Against Certain Members of Parliament and Others’ (London: Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1890). The title on the spine reads ‘Parnell Commission Report’.

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