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A poem written by William Woodlock (1801-1803) for his grand-daughter Frances Woodlock 'on receiving from her a lock of her hair'. The poem is dated 12 June 1877 at Bruges, Belgium. This William Woodlock was the father of William Woodlock (1832-1890), the barrister and Dublin Police Court Magistrate.

A view of Portstewart Strand, a sandy, two-mile long beach in County Derry, in about 1950.

A clipping from the 'Evening Telegraph' (6 Sept. 1913) showing the woman on the right collecting on O'Connell Street for a relief fund established in the aftermath of the Church Street tenement disaster.

An image of Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. outside St. Mary of the Angels Church, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

A postcard print of Cologne Cathedral (officially the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter) on the River Rhine in Germany.

A letter from Maud Gonne MacBride, Roebuck House, Clonskea, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The letter refers to her views on partition and the forthcoming content on the same subject in ‘The Capuchin Annual’. She wrote ‘The infirmities of old age prevent me from active work, but leave me more time for thought, and I believe that on the ending of partition Ireland’s destiny depends …’.

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.

A view of Cobh Harbour in County Cork. The Cathedral Church of St. Colman is prominent in the image.

An Irish Army vehicle towing an artillery piece crosses a pontoon bridge while on manoeuvres. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Artillery crosses a pontoon bridge during army manoeuvres in the south'.

A view of a farmer resident in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Coming from the peat bogs, Dunfanaghy, County Donegal'.