A view of the landscape near the slopes of Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, in about 1935. This 764-metre-high mountain is traditionally climbed by pilgrims on the last Sunday in July. The traditional thatched cottage in the foreground is noted in the caption (on the reverse of the print) as being the birthplace in Louisburgh of John McEvilly, the Archbishop of Tuam from 1881 to 1902
A view of the small harbour at Roundstone, Connemara, County Galway, in about 1960. Roundstone (in Irish, ‘Cloch na Rón’, meaning ‘seal’s rock’) was built in the 1820s by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), a Scottish civil engineer who had settled in the locality.
A scene from a mass gathering held in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 23 June 1929 to mark the centenary of Catholic Emancipation. The caption to the photograph indicates that an individual had fainted (on what was, by all accounts, a very warm day) and required some medical assistance.
Two views of the annual Easter commemoration at Arbour Hill Cemetery, Dublin, for the 1916 Rising leaders. The photographs probably show a commemoration ceremony held in the early 1950s.
A view of a group of pilgrims at Gougane Barra in County Cork in 1910. The photograph shows (second on the left) Fr. Huxley, the parish priest who was responsible for building the present-day oratory at Gougane Barra.
