Photographs prints for an article by Liam de Paor (1926-1998) titled ‘Saint Patrick’s Rock’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1958). The file comprises photographic prints of various views of the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary. The prints are credited to Fr. Reginald Walker CSSp.
An image of a parade to encourage recruitment for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at the outbreak of the First World War.
The original caption reads: ‘After the surrender the British soldiers with guns at the ready amid the ruins of Henry Street, at the right of the picture with canopy over the door, the bombed out Coliseum Variety Theatre’.
A photographic print of the shooting of Seán Treacy, a senior Irish Republican, on Talbot Street, Dublin, during the War of Independence.
Photographic prints relating to the visit to Ireland of President John F. Kennedy in June 1963. The photographs are primarily press prints credited to the 'Irish Times', the 'Irish Press', the 'Irish Independent' and Lensman Photographic Agency, Dublin. Other prints are credited to Liam Kennedy & Sons, photographers, 42 MacCurtain Street, Cork, and Ambrose O’Mullane, 15 Wellington Road, Cork. Many of the prints appeared in a special photographic section of 'The Capuchin Annual' (1964), pp 260-88, titled ‘President Kennedy in Ireland, 1963’. The file includes prints showing President Kennedy attending official functions in Dublin (including a state banquet in Iveagh House, and receptions in Dublin Castle and at Áras an Uachtaráin), at Arbour Hill Cemetery, in Wexford Town and in New Ross, and in motorcade processions on O’Connell Street, Dublin, and on St. Patrick’s Street, Cork. Other individuals appearing in the prints include Sean T. O’Kelly, Éamon de Valera, Frank Aiken, Seán Lemass, and Eunice Mary Kennedy.
A view of some of the crowds assembled on Arran Quay during the visit of President John F. Kennedy to Dublin on 26 June 1963. The photograph was taken by Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap. (1904-1984).
Sans titrePhotographic prints for an article by Fr. T.J. Walsh titled ‘Through Cork, Kerry and Limerick with Rinuccini’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1963). The file includes prints of various locations associated with Rinuccini’s time as Papal Nuncio to Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century including Macroom Castle, County Cork, the Collegiate Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Kimallock, County Limerick, Ardtully Castle, County Kerry, Dominican Friary, Kilmallock, County Limerick, and Kilmeedy Castle, County Cork. Other prints show details from the inscription on Archbishop Rinuccini’s tomb in Fermo Cathedral, Italy.
A view of Macroom Castle Gatehouse in County Cork. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Entrance to Macroom Castle'.
A view of King John's Castle (or King's Castle), a fifteenth-century four storey tower house in Kilmallock, County Limerick.
A view of the ruins of the Collegiate Church of St Peter and St Paul in Kilmallock in County Limerick.