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Dermod O’Brien Obituary

Dermod O’Brien Obituary

A clipping of an obituary for the artist and President of the Royal Hibernian Academy Dermod O’Brien. The article notes that he was the grandson of William Smith O’Brien, they Young Irelander. The obituary was published in the ‘Irish Press’ (5 October 1945).

Mainie Jellet Travelling Scholarship Fund

Mainie Jellet Travelling Scholarship Fund

An information flier on the Mainie Jellet travelling scholarship fund established to perpetuate the memory of her ‘inspiring work as a teacher and friend of the younger generation of Irish artists’.

St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny City

St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny City

An aerial view of St. Kieran's College ('Coláiste Chiaráin') in Kilkenny in about 1935. The college is a secondary school and was formerly a seminary. The seminary was closed in 1994.

Enniscorthy, County Wexford

Enniscorthy, County Wexford

A pictorial postcard print of the town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford in about 1945. Some of the prominent buildings in the image include Enniscorthy Castle (centre), a late sixteenth-century fortified tower house, St. Aidan’s Cathedral (background, centre-left), the largest building in Ireland designed (1843) by Augustus Welby Pugin (1812-1852), the architect responsible for the interior of the Palace of Westminster in London, and St. Mary’s Church of Ireland (left), a Gothic Revival style church built between 1840 and 1850 to the designs of Joseph Welland (1798-1860), architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in Ireland.

Kissing the Blarney Stone, County Cork

Kissing the Blarney Stone, County Cork

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.

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