Rex Roberts Studios

Details

Level of description

File

Date

c.1949-1969

Reference

14

Extent and medium

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

Scope and content

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.

Publication note

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

General note

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

Repository

Irish Capuchin Archives

Context

Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of 'The Capuchin Annual' and the Irish Capuchin Publications Office > 'The Capuchin Annual' > Photographic Collection > Photographers and Studios

Rights

Rights

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