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The official unveiling of the statue of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on Sackville (later O’Connell) Street on 8 February 1893. The statue was designed by Mary Redmond (1863-1930).

A postcard print of a cartoon image imploring the United States President to support the cause of Irish freedom. The artist’s initials are given as ‘H.O’N’.

A view of a man cycling along Walkin Street (later Friary Street) in Kilkenny city. The Capuchin Friary in Kilkenny is located on this street.

A postcard illustration captioned ‘Scrubbing / I.R.A. Prisoners, 1916 / English Prison Scene’.

A postcard print of a nationalist cartoon titled ‘The Bewitched Signboard’ referring to elements of governance in what is termed ‘West Britain’.

An image of a temperance banner from the ‘Father Mathew Total Abstinence Association, Church Street. IRELAND SOBER IS IRELAND FREE!’. The banner was printed by An Clú Cumann, Limited, Gaelic Printers, Great Strand Street, Dublin.

A view of the rear of the Capuchin Friary building and adjoining garden in Kilkenny.

A colour postcard print of the high altar and interior of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny.

A view of the high altar of the Church of St. Francis in Kilkenny in c.1910.

A view of the quay at Queenstown, County Cork, in about 1900. The image shows the ‘Flying Fox’, a small paddle steamer and tug, used to ferry passengers and luggage to transatlantic liners before their passage to North America. The ‘Flying Fox’ was later involved in the rescue of survivors from the ‘Lusitania’ following an attack by a German submarine on 7 May 1915. The ‘Flying Fox’ was owned by the Clyde Shipping Company. She was built in 1885 and seems to have spent most of her life in Cork. During the First World War it was requisitioned by the British Admiralty as ‘Flying Fox II’. In 1919, she was sold to the Moville Steamship Company and worked in Lough Foyle until 1927, as the ‘Cragbue’.