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.
The file comprises an incomplete of run of this weekly publication published in Dublin. With numerous single sheets or clippings from selected editions.
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.
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 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).
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'.
'On the proper shoulders'. At head of text: extracts from the Official Report of proceedings in the English House of Commons (Hansard, June 26th, 1922, Vol. 155, no. 84).
