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An aerial view of Marino, a suburb on the north side of Dublin, in June 1932. Visible in the photograph is the O’Brien Institute which was built in the early 1880s as an orphan home and school. The Institute buildings are now used as a training and conference centre for Dublin City Fire Brigade. The print shows large tents pitched on the grounds of the Casino in Marino. The tents may have had some connection with pilgrims attending the International Eucharistic Congress.

Photographic print of (left) Seán MacBride (1904-1988) with Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, librarian, Boston College, Massachusetts, United States.

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

The Lee Public Baths, Victoria Cross, Cork, in about 1945. The Lee Baths were a sprawling outdoor and unheated swimming pool complex with rudimentary concrete finishes and a perilous diving board. Costing £23,000 to build, the baths opened to the public in 1934.

An image of Douglas Hyde (1860-1949), President of Ireland, leaving St. Andrew's Church on Westland Row in Dublin.

A portrait photograph of a elderly lady smoking a pipe in Dublin in about 1945.

A view of Parke’s Castle (also known as Newtown Castle or O'Rourke's Castle) on the shores of Lough Gill in County Leitrim.

A view of Achill Sound, a stretch of water separating Achill Island from the mainland. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Looking across the Sound of Achill to the island from the mainland of Mayo'.

A woman washing sheep fleeces on the shoreline at Dooagh on Achill Island off the coast of County Mayo in c.1935.

Joseph Aloysius Lyons (1879-1939), Prime Minister of Australia, with Éamon de Valera, at Dún Laoghaire during the former's official visit to Ireland in June 1935. A typescript caption reads 'Australia's Premier's visit / Mr. J.A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, and Mr. de Valera, who met him at his arrival at Dún Laoghaire'.