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'.
Photographic prints for article by ‘Hibernicus’ on the canonization of Blessed Pope Pius X (1835-1914), in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1955). The file includes press photographs from Foto Attualita’ Giordani. The prints have manuscript captions on the reverse. The file includes prints of the original tomb of Pope Pius X, the procession of the body and relics of Pope Pius X to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, and the mass of canonization at St. Peter’s Basilica, on 13 June 1954.
A photographic print of Michael Collins in Free State Army uniform at Newcastle West, County Limerick, on 8 August 1922.
A photographic print of British troops installing a barricade outside City Hall, Dublin, during the early phases of the War of Independence.
A photographic print showing Michael Collins commending the Anglo-Irish Treaty to a huge crowd gathered outside College Green, Dublin.
An image of John Redmond (front row, third from the left) at the Irish Convention in Trinity College Dublin in 1917.
Photographic prints for an article by James Flynn titled ‘Teresa Brayton, 1868-1943’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1961). The file includes prints of the unveiling of a Celtic Cross over the grave of Teresa Brayton in the churchyard of Cluain Conaire, County Kildare, by President Éamon de Valera. Other prints show the Rev. Dr. Corkery speaking at the unveiling, and the countryside which inspired Brayton’s writings.
Photographic print of a monument to Fr. Arthur O’Leary OSFC (1729-1802) in Saint Patrick’s Church, Soho Square, London, used in an article by Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap. titled ‘Fr. Arthur O’Leary OFM Cap. / Apostle of Toleration’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1961).
Photographic prints relating to the funeral of Pope John XXIII (d. 3 June 1963). The prints are mainly press photographs from Fotografia Pontificia Giordani, Rome.
A view of the ruins of Ardtully House near Kilgarvan in County Kerry. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'Grounds of Ardtully Castle / showing the turret of the Orpen Mansion'. The original castle on this site was destroyed during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century. In 1847, Sir Richard Orpen (1788-1876) demolished the remains of the castle and replaced it with a five-bay, two-storey Scottish-Baronial style house. This house was itself destroyed during the War of Independence in 1921.