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The entrance to the Mardyke, an extensive area of parkland in Cork city.

A view of MacCurtain Street, Cork, in about 1945. Formerly called King Street, this historic thoroughfare was renamed in honour of Tomás Mac Curtain (1884-1920), a republican Lord Mayor of Cork who was assassinated during the War of Independence.

A view of Saint Fin Barre's (Anglican) Cathedral, from South Main Street, Cork.

A view of Sheares Street, near the Mardyke Park in Cork, in about 1940. The street was previously known as Nile Street before its name was changed to honour the Cork-born Sheares’ brothers, Henry (1753-1798) and John (1766-1798), members of the Society of United Irishmen who were executed following the 1798 Rebellion.

Irish Army soldiers on parade (possibly in Collins Barracks, Dublin) in c.1940.

A view of a family group outside Eason’s Bookstore at the corner of Middle Abbey Street and O’Connell Street, Dublin, in about 1940

A crowned skull on the sarcophagus of Emperor Charles VI (1685-1740) framing the entrance to the Maria Theresa vault in the Imperial Crypt, Capuchin Friary, Vienna, Austria.

A view of biplanes (and a autogyro) over Longford Town in about 1935. The larger plane is apparently an Airspeed Ferry, a ten-seat passenger biplane built in the early 1930s. The photograph is related to an aviation display organised by Alan Cobham (1894-1973). Cobham organised displays of various aircraft, ranging from single-seaters to modern airliners, with many skilled pilots. He toured both Britain and Ireland, calling at hundreds of sites, some of them regular airfields and some just fields cleared for the occasion. Generally known as ‘Cobham's Flying Circus’, it was hugely popular, giving thousands of people their first experience of flying. These displays continued until about 1935.

A photographic print of Gaelic football teams parading before a match in Croke Park, Dublin.

A view of Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, at night in about 1930.