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Copy letter from Mary MacSwiney (Máire Nic Shuibhne), 23 Suffolk Street, Dublin, to Diarmuid Ó Murchadha referring to Br. Senan Moynihan’s assertion that he (Ó Murchadha) had supplied the manuscript copy of part two of ‘Scéal “Sheandúin” to the friar.

A postcard print of the Browne-Clayton Monument on Carrigadaggan Hill, Carrigbyrne, County Wexford. This Corinthian column was designed by Thomas Alfred Cobden (1794-1842) in about 1840 at the request of Robert Browne-Clayton to perpetuate the memory of his comrade, General Sir Ralph Abercromby (1731-1801), who died in Egypt during the Napoleonic Wars. Published by the 'Strand Hotel, Rosslare / From the Movie Film "Historic Wexford"'.

An image titled 'The Head of Glenveagh, County Donegal'.

A view of the Yellow Steeple (formerly the bell tower of St. Mary's Abbey), a well-known landmark in Trim in County Meath.

An image of a traditional thatched cottage in the village of Baltray in County Louth.

An image of Gaelic footballers at St. Enda’s School, or Scoil Éanna, a secondary school for boys established by Pádraig Pearse in 1908.

Letter from Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., referring to his poor health and his imminent departure for Santa Inés, ‘one of the old Franciscan missions in Los Angeles – somewhere about 40 miles from Santa Barbara'. Bibby adds 'The Bishop, Dr. [John Joseph] Cantwell, is giving it to our people, and I’m to run it …’. He also refers to prominent members of the Irish American community and to his meeting with Seán T. O’Kelly, Sinn Féin envoy to the United States. Bibby writes ‘He [O'Kelly] has a tough job before him, as hard as ever a man faced. Even had our people played the game – it would be difficult owing to [the] sinister influence of [Daniel Florence] Cohalan and [John] Devoy’.

An image of construction work on the Pollaphuca (Poulaphouca) electricity generating station in County Wicklow. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'Poulaphouca Water Scheme / unfinished / awaiting completion / showing turbines'. The photograph is credited to Frank O'Brien, Fermoy, County Cork.

A colourized postcard print of Holy Trinity Church on Father Mathew Quay in Cork. The print forms part of Tuck’s Post Card series. A description of Cork Harbour in extant on the reverse.

An image of a wedding party leaving a church in Cape Town, South Africa.