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Scrapbook containing photographs, drawings, colour illustrations, postcards, and newspaper cuttings relating to the Homan-Mulock family of Ballycumber House. Particular interest shown in horses and equestrian events locally and in England, with photographs from the Pytchley, Grafton and Bicester Hunts; racing at Punchestown; Moate horse show; and polo matches and gymkhanas at Ballycumber House. Many of the photographs are unidentified but there are some depicting Sheila Beddington and her younger brother Guy and their father, Claude Beddington. The scrapbook is attributed to E. Mulock which could be either (Frances) Ethel Homan Mulock or (Hester Nina) Enid Homan Mulock, but most likely the former due to the several instances of her children and husband in the photographs.

This photo album was a gift from Anna Johnston (later Mrs. Dabson) to Dalkeith Holmes Plunkett-Johnston. Inside the front cover is the inscription, ' Dalkeith H Plunkett Johnston from his sister Anna, wife of George Johnston, afterwards Mrs. Dabson December 1867'.

Photograph album created by Lt. Col. M. O'Carroll Fitz-Simon, M.C. , who began his military career in Prince of Wales' Leinster Regiment, which was headquartered at Birr. The photographs document a peace-keeping mission the Leinsters undertook in Silesia (now part of Poland) from their departure at Dover on 31 May 1921, through Germany and to their destination of Oppeln (Opole in Poland today). Following the disbandment of the regiment in June 1922, Fitz-Simon joined the King's Own Regiment, Lancaster and the remaining photographs in the album depict scenes from missions in India and Burma. There is also a small number of photographs of people and houses in the Birr area including Whigsborough House, and the burnt out remains of Birr Barracks (following its destruction in the Civil War in July 1922).

Photograph album containing many images of Alice Lamb from around the year 1936, shortly before her death in November 1936. In the photographs she is often in the company of Lewis Roe, who became her fiancé in August 1936.

Album of photographs taken by the Lamb family from the 1920s and 1930s.

Photodiary by Fr Kevin Laheen SJ, recounting a visit to the Old Cemetery in Rahan to look for the remains of Rev. Henry Lynch SJ.

Copy correspondence between two generations of Perkinson and Monaghan family members, all connected with Croghan, near Birr, Co Offaly and the Irish Hills area of the state of Michigan, USA. Following the devastation of the Great Famine, John Monaghan emigrated firstly to Suffolk and then to Michigan, where he received letters from his sister, Mary and her husband William Perkinosn, pleading for assistance to also enable their family emigrate to America. The correspondence describes the effect of famine and emigration on the Croghan area. Their son William, who emigrated to Lancashire, also writes to his cousin in Michigan of the second generation with much the same request.

Photocopy of six photographs of Frank Davison Smith. Also in the photographs are his three sisters, Eileen Muriel Smith, Mary Smith, and Anna Smith; his wife Flora Smith; and the 54th Canadian Infantry Battalion in Belgium 1919.

Photocopy made by Brian Marion Smith of four photographs of Tobias family members. Includes photographs of: Anna Marguerite Smith, Billy Tobias, Jesse Purdy, Mabel Smith, Eileen Smith, Theodore Tobias, Neil McDermott, Barbara McDermott, Theodore Tobias, Beamish Mansfield, Nora Mansfield, Brian Marion Smith, Flora C Smith.

Photocopy of two photographs of Jane Davison Smith standing beside the railing of a ship, probably taken on a Cunard Liner.