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The Reverend Mother M. Dorothy,
Vice-provincial,
Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambety,
Edenmore Road, Raheny, Dubiin.
THE CHANCELLERY,
ARCHBISHOP'S HOUSE
DUBLIN 9,
Dear Reverend Mother,
His Grace the Archbishop has asked me to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated the
2nd of September in which you request permission
to sell approximately two or three acres of land
on the corner of Edenmore Road and Harmonstown Road.
Before considering your request His Grace
would like to know if, in accordance with the
ordinary rules of alienation, the said sale has the
recommendation of the Superior General and her
Council.
With kind regards and every good wish,
Yours sincerely in D.no,
5 September 1969.
p.p. Chancellor.

A photograph an Irish National Army officer (identified as ‘Captain Heaslip’ in the original caption) conversing with a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment as the former prepares to assume guard duties at the Bank of Ireland building on College Green in Dublin. This was one of several significant public handovers from the British administration to the Provisional Government during 1922. The event was noteworthy as it was first time that the historic Bank of Ireland building (prior to 1801 it housed the Parliament of Ireland) was guarded by non-British troops.

A view of the changing of the military guard outside the National History Museum at the rear of Leinster House, Dublin. The soldiers are walking towards the pathway which leads to the North Road running between the Museum and the Department of the Attorney General.

A photograph of the Catholic chapel on the Italian transatlantic ocean liner ‘Conte di Savoia’. Three Capuchin friars are seen worshipping. The friar (standing on the left) is Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap.

A view of Chapelizod on the banks of the River Liffey in Dublin in about 1955. A manuscript annotation on the reverse reads 'Chapelizod'.