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A postcard view of Ashford Castle (referred to as 'Ashford House, Cong') situated on the Galway-Mayo border. The original caption refers to the purchase of the castle by Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness (1798-1868) in 1852. Reference is also made to the extensive renovation work carried out by Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun (1840-1915).

A postcard print image of the Healy Pass near Glengarriff in County Cork. The caption provides the full name of the road. It was named after Timothy Michael Healy (1885-1931), a Cork-born nationalist politician, and the first Governor-General of the Irish Free State.

An image of the destroyed exterior of the Colegio Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (a De La Salle Brothers’ school) in Madrid, Spain. The building was destroyed during anticlerical riots in the Spanish capital in May 1931. Between 10 May and 13 May 1931, over one hundred convents and other religious buildings were destroyed in an event known as the 'Burning of the Convents'.

Postcard print of Ferrycarrig, County Wexford, in c.1940.

A postcard print of Inch Strand, County Kerry, in c.1930.

A view of the Queen Victoria Statue outside Leinster House, Dublin, in about 1935. The bronze statue with three attendants, depicting Hibernia at War, Hibernia at Peace, and Fame, was designed by the Irish sculptor John Hughes and sat at the Kildare Street entrance to Leinster House (the seat of the Irish Parliament) from 1908 to 1948. Following its removal, it was stored in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The statute was eventually re-erected in 1987 in front of the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia.

A photoengraving showing tenement dwellers in Dublin. The original photographic print is credited to Thomas F. Geoghegan (Essex Quay).

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.

An image of a farmer using a horse-drawn plough in rural Ireland.

An image of an artwork seller on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, in about 1940.