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A view of Sarsfield Bridge spanning the River Shannon in Limerick in about 1945.

A view of the Grand Parade, the widest street in Cork. The ornate pillared-building seen in the background is Queen’s Old Castle, a Victorian-era building and one of the city’s oldest department stores.

A view of a street in Gurranabraher, a residential suburb on the north western side of Cork. The street is Cathedral Road in Gurranabraher. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Gurranabraher / Red City'.

Photographic prints of an Irish military tattoo at the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) arena in Dublin. The tattoo (essentially a pageant or display involving armed forces) was organised to raise funds for the Army Benevolent fund and to mark the contribution of the Irish Defence Forces (‘Óglaigh na hÉireann’) to the state during the wartime Emergency (1939-45). The reference to ‘Eoghan Ruadh Ó Néill’s Army’ in the caption refers to the centrepiece of the tattoo, a recreation of O’Neill’s famous victory at the Battle of Benburb (5 June 1646) during the Irish Confederate Wars.

The front cover of the ‘Irish Travel’ magazine from April 1945. The cover has an image of the quays fronting onto the South Channel of the River Lee in Cork. The magazine was published by the Irish Tourist Association (ITA).

A clipping of an appreciation of the sculptor Albert Power by C.P. Curran. The article was published in the ‘Sunday Independent’ (15 July 1945).

A photographic print of the funeral of the sculptor Albert Power in Dublin. The mourners include Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap. The photograph is credited to the 'Irish Press'.

Copy letter from T.J. Kiernan (1897-1967), Irish Minister to the Holy See, to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. Kiernan refers to the deprivations and the scarcity of food stuffs in Rome. He adds 'Altogether for seventeen months there has been no real leadership. We lock ourselves in at 7pm because there is so much highway robbery under arms. The city administration collapsed'.

No year given

Father Clarence Brady CSSP concerning his vocation to the Benedictine way of life. Sent from Kimmage where the Holy Ghost Missionaries have a house