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An image of the destroyed exterior of the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (a De La Salle Brothers’ school) in Madrid, Spain. The building was destroyed during anticlerical riots in the Spanish capital in May 1931. Between 10 May and 13 May 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were destroyed in an event known as the 'Burning of the Convents'.

Postcard print of Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, in c.1940.

A postcard print of Inch Strand, County Kerry, in c.1930.

A view of the Queen Victoria Statue outside Leinster House, Dublin, in about 1935. The bronze statue with three attendants, depicting Hibernia at War, Hibernia at Peace, and Fame, was designed by the Irish sculptor John Hughes and sat at the Kildare Street entrance to Leinster House (the seat of the Irish Parliament) from 1908 to 1948. Following its removal, it was stored in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The statute was eventually re-erected in 1987 in front of the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia.

A photoengraving showing tenement dwellers in Dublin. The original photographic print is credited to Thomas F. Geoghegan (Essex Quay).

A pictorial postcard print of the town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford in about 1945. Some of the prominent buildings in the image include Enniscorthy Castle (centre), a late sixteenth-century fortified tower house, St. Aidan’s Cathedral (background, centre-left), the largest building in Ireland designed (1843) by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), the architect responsible for the interior of the Palace of Westminster in London, and St. Mary’s Church of Ireland (left), a Gothic Revival style church built between 1840 and 1850 to the designs of Joseph Welland (1798-1860), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland.

An image of a farmer using a horse-drawn plough in rural Ireland.

An image of an artwork seller on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, in about 1940.

A view of the Phoenix Park in Dublin in the summer of 1948.

A view of the Blarney Stone in about 1945. According to legend, kissing the stone (which is built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, County Cork) bestows upon the person the gift of eloquence and persuasiveness.