File 14 - Rex Roberts Studios

26 items; 25.5 cm x 19.5 cm; 20.5 cm x 16 cm; Black and white print

Photographic prints by Rex Roberts Studios Ltd., Wilton House, 8 Appian Way, Dublin. Most of the prints are annotated on the reverse. The file includes the following images:

• The Lakes of Killarney, County Kerry.
• CIE locomotive train pulling into a station.
• Winter scenery around Enniskerry, County Wicklow.
• The Italian Navy tall ship, Amerigo Vespucci.
• The Custom House, Dublin.
• The Round tower at Glendalough, County Wicklow
• The Church of the Sacred Heart, Donnybrook, Dublin.
• Mrs McNie, hand-weaver, near Newport, County Mayo.
• On the road above Bantry Bay, County Cork.
• Knightstown Harbour, Valentia Island, County Kerry.
• Lough Gill, County Sligo.
• Valentia Harbour, County Kerry.
• River Lee, Cork.
• On the Blasket Islands looking from Great Blasket towards the mainland.
• The Abbot’s Cross, St. Michael’s Oratory, Skellig Michael.
• Launching a currach off the Blasket Islands.
• Scenes at the Puck Fair, Killorglin, County Kerry.
• Mulranny, County Mayo.
• A craftsman dressing a mill stone.

A selection of images by Rex Roberts was published in a photographic feature titled ‘A Pleasant Place is Ireland’ in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1959). See https://designrr.page/?id=315604&token=386663418&type=FP&h=7202

For more information see the Rex Roberts photographic collection in the National Library of Ireland.
See https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000299306