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A view of College Green, Dublin, in the 1930s. Prominent are the electric trams of the Dublin United Tramways Company which operated in the capital from 1872 until the late 1940s.

A photograph of crowds around the bandstand in St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, in the summer of 1948.

The Lee Public Baths, Victoria Cross, Cork, in about 1945. The Lee Baths were a sprawling outdoor and unheated swimming pool complex with rudimentary concrete finishes and a perilous diving board. Costing £23,000 to build, the baths opened to the public in 1934.

An ambulance used by Capuchin missionaries in Berbera in British-controlled Somaliland in Northern Africa. French Capuchin friars from Toulouse began ministering in Somalia in 1881 and continued to labour there until they were expelled by the British authorities for political reasons.

The ‘Forty Steps’ otherwise known as Cromwell’s Quarters just off James’s Street in Dublin.

A view of Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, in about 1945. The modern town of Dundalk largely owes its form to James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil (c.1618-1659) who commissioned the construction of many of the main streets leading to the town centre.

An aerial view of Waterford city showing Redmond Bridge in c.1940.

An image titled ‘Inishmaan Pupils’. The print is slightly blurred but the date (25 May 1937) is visible on the teacher’s blackboard. Inishmaan (Inis Meáin) is the middle of the three main Aran Islands located off Galway on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast.

A view of the ‘Journey’s End’ cottage at Baily, Howth, overlooking Dublin Bay in about 1940. The cottage was later purchased by Andrew Devane (1917-2000), one of Ireland’s leading architects. From 1952-55, he transformed Journey’s End into one of Ireland’s most famous modernist-style residences.

The refectory in the Capuchin Friary (Walkin Street, later Friary Street), Kilkenny.