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Two images of St. Patrick’s Street in Cork. One of the prints forms part of Valentine’s & Sons 'Silveresque' postcard series (Dundee and London. Reference no.: R. 202).

Capuchin friars (including Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. and Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap.) with local inhabitants at the Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

A group including Henry Sinjwala (catechist) at Loanja mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

An article on the history of the Wray family in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Wrays were the owners of the Ards Estate before it was purchased by the Stewarts in 1781. It is noted that in about 1700 William Wray ‘bought 5,000 acres of land between Dunfanaghy and Doe from William Sampson’. The article adds: 'In 1781 the estate was sold to Mr Alexander Stewart, brother of the first Marquess of Londonderry and uncle of the infamous Lord Castlereagh, for the sum of £13,250 in order to meet the owner’s debts'. An appendix to the article includes some brief notes on the Stewarts of Ards compiled by Fr. T.J. Walsh, a diocesan priest in Cork.

An image of traditional African huts, probably in Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).

A view of the ‘Innisfallen’ at Penrose Quay, Cork, leaving for Fishguard in Wales in about 1935.

An image showing horses on parade in the arena at the Royal Dublin Horse Show in Ballsbridge in about 1935.

Memoriam card for Fr. Dominic O’Connor. The card notes his role as chaplain to the Lord Mayors of Cork, Tomás Mac Curtain, and Terence MacSwiney. It also states that he died ‘in exile for the Republic of Ireland at Bend, Oregon, USA, 17th October 1935’.

An image captioned as follows 'Pupils of the Mullholland School of Dancing, Belfast, who won the St. Michael's Cup for Hornpipe (under 16) at the Father Mathew Feis, Dublin'. The clipping was taken from the 'Irish Press'.