Album, print
Collection object
0000.3554
Covers 27.6 x 19.2
Book of prints, titled Album of Ireland, c.1896, by Lawrence, Dublin. Red-brown card covers, front inlaid gilt with title and arms of the four provinces in garter inscribed Oilean na Rig agus na Naomh, all within rectangular border of neo-Celtic design. Contents: 1. Dublin, Sackville St & O'Connell Bridge. 2. Blarney Castle (Cork), Monasterboyce Cross (Louth), round tower (Antrim), Irish jaunting car 3. Queenstown Harbour (Cork) showing Spike Island and Haulbowline, Queenstown general view showing Cathedral 4. Kingstown Harbour, Co Dublin, Glendalough, Powerscourt Waterfall, In the Dargle, Co Wicklow (bridge), Bray, showing Bray Head, Enniskerry, Waterfalls in Devils Glen, Vale of Ovoca 5. Royal Ave, Belfast 6. Donegall Place, High St, Queens College, Free Library, Albert Memorial, Belfast 7. Giants Causeway, Dunluce Castle, Antrim; Londonderry, Cathedral, Bishops Gate, Walker Monument & Apprentice Boys Hall Derry, Giants Head, Portrush 8. Giants Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, Antrim 9. Dublin Custom House, Four Courts, Stephens Green, Phoenix Park, St Patricks & Christchurch Cathedrals 10. Dublin - O'Connell Monument, GPO & Nelsons Pillar, Chapel Royal, Grattan Statue, O'Connell Tower, Glasnevin, Bank of Ireland. Inside back cover: Advertisements for GSWR, Dublin - Killarney and Dublin Wicklow & Wexford Railway, dated May 1896. Printed in Germany. Sold wholesale by W Lawrence, Photographic Publisher, Dublin. Three pages loose, the rest badly re-inserted.