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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.

A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.

A view of pilgrims aboard a small boat on their way to the Sanctuary of St Patrick on Lough Derg, County Donegal, in about 1930.

A photographic print of Gaelic football teams parading before a match in Croke Park, Dublin.

A view of O’Connell Street, Dublin, in about 1930. One of the prominent buildings on Upper O’Connell Street is the Grand Central Cinema which opened its doors in 1921. It was badly damaged in a bomb attack in 1923, and finally destroyed when a fire broke out in 1946. The location is now occupied by a bank.

A view of City Hall as seen from the southern end of Parliament Street in Dublin in about 1945.

A view of O’Connell Street from atop Nelson’s Pillar in about 1930.

A view of the exterior of the General Post Office on O'Connell Street in Dublin in about 1940.

A view of St. Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street in Dublin in about 1940.

A view of the O'Connell Monument on the southern end of O'Connell Street in Dublin.