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Photographic prints compiled for a feature commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1916 Rising, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1967), pp 101-30. The article was titled ‘Ireland remembers with pride Easter Week 1916 in Golden Jubilee celebrations’. Many of the prints are of various parades of veterans and civic events commemorating the Rising. Some of the prints are annotated on the reverse giving location, photographer and copyright information. The file includes prints from the 'Irish Press', Kennelly’s Photo Works, Tralee, and the 'Cork Examiner'. Includes images of parades and commemorations in Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Dundalk, Tralee, Tullamore, Waterford, and London. The file includes the following images:
• Jubilee Parade at the GPO on O’Connell Street, Dublin.
• Florence Monteith Lynch and Nuala Creagh at Banna Strand, County Kerry.
• 1916 commemoration in Tullamore, County Offaly.
• Siobhan McKenna reads the 1916 proclamation in Eyre Square, Galway.
• Republican gathering at Thomas Kent’s grave in St. Finbarr’s Cemetery, Cork.
• Members of Cumann na mBan and the old-IRA at the unveiling of a monument in Ennis, County Clare.
The file also includes a small number of related newspaper clippings.

A large group of Irish prisoners detained in Stafford Jail in England following the 1916 Rising. The print is annotated on the reverse: ‘photograph believed to be the largest group of 1916 men taken’. Stafford Jail was converted for use as a military detention barracks and was used to hold Irish internees before their transfer to Frongoch Internment Camp in North Wales.

A portrait photograph of a farmer from Ballycotton in County Cork in about 1935.

A clipping of an article on street life in Dublin written by the Belfast-based artist George Campbell. The article was published in the ‘Irish Travel’ magazine in February 1945. Campbell’s article includes a description of the stalls and markets on Horseman’s Row which formed part of the old Anglesea Market site near Moore Street. Reference is also made to Campbell's visit to the office of ‘The Capuchin Annual’ on nearby Capel Street, occupied by the editors of the periodical, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.

A street scene in Belfast in about 1935. The print is titled on the reverse: ‘Sunday in the city – a sunshine study’.

A republican flier with the text of a ballad titled ‘A black and tan’s letter / to his sweetheart in England’.

A print titled 'a Claddagh Group’, Galway, c.1940.

A view of children following cattle on a country road in about 1940.

A portrait photograph of a County Down farmer in about 1930.

A photographic print of an election poster encouraging the public to vote for W.T. Cosgrave as Sinn Féin MP for Kilkenny city in the parliamentary by-election in 1917. Cosgrave, who was a veteran of the 1916 Rising, was victorious in the by-election, defeating John Magennis of the Irish Parliamentary Party. Cosgrave would go on to serve for ten years (from 1922-32) as President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.