A collection of original black and white press photographs related to various events and figures in Irish life dating 1919--1939.

Black and white photos of the elephants in Dublin Zoo in the 1900s. One photo and the negative show a little girl next to one adult and one baby elephant. Two photos show Santa reaching down from an adult elephant to a child on a baby elephant.

Black and white photo, Queen Victoria in carriage with flowers

Colour photograph of O’Connell Street showing the GPO and Nelson’s Pillar as well as cars parked along the centre of the street taken by Colman Doyle.
This photograph shows the GPO on O’Connell Street. In 1966 the IRA blew up Nelson’s pillar, also pictured, and the Spire is now on the site that the pillar once occupied.

A black and white photo taken in 1969 of four little girls playing skipping in front of the flats in Ballymun, Dublin.

Black and white picture of a bus driving down Grafton Street and crowds walking the path prepedestrianisation.