Documento 3 - Views of Irish Life

62 pp; 31 cm x 25.5 cm; Bound volume; black and white print

A bound volume containing photographic prints complied for publication by Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. and Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. Manuscript annotation on the spine reads ‘Views’. Most of the prints are not captioned. Many of the prints are of scenic locations in Ireland (such as various ecclesiastical sites and on the Aran Islands), rural life, and cityscapes (most notably in Dublin). The album includes the following prints (the index number refers to the pagination within the volume):

1. Townsend Street, Dublin.
2. Gaelic footballers on parade before match at Croke Park, Dublin.
3. Dublin Castle and Government buildings, Merrion Street, Dublin.
4. Leinster House, Dublin.
5. Young artist selling work on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin.
6. View from the top of Nelson’s Pillar, O’Connell Street, Dublin.
7. Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake workers.
8. View of O’Connell Bridge and Street.
9. Commemorative event probably at Arbour Hill, Dublin.
10. City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin.
11. Crowds in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
12. The Record Tower, Dublin Castle.
13. Boys playing at the steps leading to the River Liffey at the Custom House, Dublin.
14. The exterior of Avondale House, Rathdrum, County Wicklow.
15. Crowds possibly in St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
16. Fishing scenes off the west coast of Ireland (possibly the Aran Islands).
17. Washington Street, Cork.
18. College Green, Dublin.
19. Irish Celtic stone crosses
20. ‘Une Salle d’Hôpital Calais, France’.
21. Capel Street looking across the River Liffey towards Parliament Street, Dublin.
22. Manhattan Skyline.
23. General Post Office, Dublin.
24. Entrance to the Royal Academy of Music, Westland Row, Dublin.
25. Exterior of the Church of Saint Francis Xavier, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin.
26. Leinster House, Dublin.
27. Eason’s Bookstore, Dublin.
28. Dublin Castle seen from the park to the south.
29. View from Nelson’s Pillar of O’Connell Street looking northwards.
30. Phoenix Park, Dublin.
31. Interior of Dáil Éireann, Leinster House, Dublin.
32. The Four Courts as seen from a laneway (‘the forty steps’) adjacent to Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin.
33. O’Connell Monument, Dublin.
34. The exterior of the Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough Street, Dublin.
35. Interior of the Imperial Crypt (Kaisergruft), Capuchin Friary, Vienna. A deaths-head ornament on the sarcophagus of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, is prominent.
36. The Road to Healy’s Pass, Glengarrif, County Cork.
37. Gothic Church, Kylemore Abbey, County Galway.
38. Kissing the Blarney Stone, County Cork.
39. Scenes on the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway.
40. Bi-planes flying over St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford.
41. Rowing to the Sanctuary of St. Patrick, Lough Derg, County Donegal.
42. Aerial view of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth, County Kildare.
43. View of the ruined St. Mary’s Cistercian Abbey (also known as Hore Abbey) from the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary.
44. View of the exterior of Blarney Castle, County Cork.
45. The restored McCarthy’s round tower at Clonmacnoise, County Offaly.