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Photographic prints of the noted Irish opera singer Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889-1958). The file includes the following images:

• The birth-place of Margaret Burke Sheridan in Castlebar, County Mayo.
• Burke Sheridan with Hilde Gueden (1917-1988), soprano, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
• Burke Sheridan with Delia Murphy Kiernan (1902-1971) and her family.
• Burke Sheridan with Gladys Swarthout (1900-1969), opera singer, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1955.
• Burke Sheridan with Burton G. Tremaine, a noted art collector, at the opening night of the Metropolitan Opera in 1952.
• Burke Sheridan with Vincent O’Brien.
The file also includes newspaper clippings ('Irish Press', 'Sunday Review') of tributes paid to Burke Sheridan following her death.

An image of the landscape around Castletownbere in County Cork.

A view of St. Mary’s Pro-Cathedral on Marlborough Street in Dublin.

A line of jaunting cars near Avoca in County Wicklow in about 1940. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'At Avoca'.

A postcard print image captioned 'Barney's Bridge and Mount Errigal, Co. Donegal'.

A woman crossing Kenmare Bridge in County Kerry in about 1940. This bridge was completed in 1932 and replaced what was Ireland’s first suspension bridge (constructed in 1841).

A view of St. Francis Xavier Church on Upper Gardiner Street in Dublin in about 1940.

A view of the exterior of the Royal Irish Academy of Music located in a Georgian building on Westland Row in Dublin.

A view of O’Connell Street in Limerick in about 1940. The clock tower in the distance in the image stood atop Cannock’s Department Store. It was demolished after the store was taken over by Penneys (Primark) in 1980.

A view of the exterior of St. John's Cathedral in Limerick in about 1940.