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A view of the Square in Charlestown in County Mayo in about 1960.

The front cover of ‘Everyman’, an English magazine, with a portrait image of Charlotte Despard, an Anglo-Irish suffragist and socialist.

Prints of Charlotte House at the corner of Queen Street and Charlotte Quay (now known as Father Mathew Street and Father Mathew Quay) in Cork. The building is five storeys in height. The gable end is topped with a cross. The building was located on a site on the south-east corner of Queen Street. Fr. Cherubini Mazzini OSFC converted this house into a residence for the friars and Charlotte House, as it was known, remained in use until 1884 when the Capuchins took up residence in the present-day Holy Trinity Friary built by Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910). The print may have been taken from a volume.

A view of a group of children dancing a jig on Great Blasket Island (An Bhlascaod Mór) off the coast of County Kerry in about 1940.

The exterior of Chinyingi Church, Zambia.

The exterior of Chinyingi Friary, Zambia.

A large group gathered at Chinyingi Suspension Bridge over the Zambezi River. The occasion was the receipt of a cheque for the bridge’s repair.

An aerial view over the Chinyingi Suspension Bridge on the Zambezi River.

The exterior of the newly-built Church of Christ the King at Maramba.

A Christmas greeting card from Frank Ryan (Proinsias Ó Riain). The card dates to December 1937 and was probably sent to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The Spanish text translates as ‘Forward to victory over fascism in 1938!’. The greeting in Irish reads ‘Happy Christmas and New Year / from / the Irish Republican Army / “Connolly Battalion” / XV International Brigade / Army of the Republic of Spain / Christmas 1937’. (Volume page 107).