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1,070 Ireland 1940s Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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First Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland Eamon de Valera inspects a guard of honour at O'Connell street in Dublin, prior to a parade of local...

Irish Taoiseach

Tinsmith at Messrs Short and Harland ex-aircraft factory in Belfast filling the edge of a partly finished milk churn. The United Nations Relief and...

First Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland and leader of the Fianna Fail party, Eamon de Valera at his desk.

Platoon of African American troops stand in formation at a base in Northern Ireland during World War II.

Troops Standing in Formation

American animator and producer Walt Disney walking through St Stephens Green, Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland.

Walt Disney In Dublin

Daly of Ireland crawls out of a scrum with the ball during an Ireland v Wales match in Belfast. Ireland won the match.

Farmer in rural Ireland takes his harvest of seaweed back to the farm on a cart pulled by a mule. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4511 - Eire...

An Irish Woman Records Her Vote In The General Election Of 1948

Irish Woman Votes in 1948 Election

St. Patrick's Day Military Parade in Dublin, ..

St. Patrick's Day 1949

Army troops James Jillson and Raymond Peterson from Clarenden, Iowa, and stationed in Northern Ireland, are 'blacked up' to perform as minstrels in a...

Despite rationing in post war Dublin, white bread is readily available to the Irish housewife.

African American troops arrive in Northern Ireland. The first contingent of African American troops of the United States Army has arrived in Northern...

African American troops arrive in Northern Ireland

African American soldiers draw rations at the camp cook house at their station in Northern Ireland, August 1942. Detachments of African American...

International Football Friendly match at Goodison Park, Liverpool. Ireland defeat England 0-2 becoming the first foreign team to defeat England on...

Ireland defeat England 0-2 at Goodison Park - 1949

Workers harvesting flax at Killinchy, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1948. Flax must be pulled by hand with great care otherwise useable fibres are...

Workers loading flax onto a tractor at Killinchy, County Down. Original Publication: Picture Post - 4584 - Irish Linen Earns Needed Dollars - pub....

Workers harvesting flax at Killinchy, County Down, Northern Ireland, 1948. Flax must be pulled by hand with great care otherwise useable fibres are...

Northern Irish textile workers winding linen yarn into defined lengths.

Irish writer, broadcaster and Abbey Theatre director, Robert Farren at the Palace Bar in Dublin, April 1942. At centre is novelist Francis MacManus ....

Writers At The Palace Bar

An Irish Army infantry soldier bears a battalion pennant during a military inspection on a parade ground at a Free State Army barracks in Ireland...

Irish Free State Army Infantry Brigade

Man with his cow in Connemara, Ireland, with the Mweelrea Mountain in the background, 1940. Original Publication : Picture Post - Ireland - pub. 27th...

Connemara Cowherd

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: 1942, American soldiers put on an amateur boxing match while based in Northern Ireland

War and Conflict. World War Two. pic: 1942. American soldiers put on an amateur boxing match while based in Northern Ireland.

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: April 1942, US,soldiers manning a machine gun during an exercise in Northern Ireland

War and Conflict. World War Two. pic: April 1942. US.soldiers manning a machine gun during an exercise in Northern Ireland.

American troops and a pet dog, looking at a scrapbook, during training in Northern Ireland, March 1942.

U.S. Troops In Ulster

Man operates a loom at an Irish linen factory.

Tommy Lawton of England in action against Ireland during an International match at Windsor Park in Belfast on 28th September 1946. England won 7-2.

Ireland v England

Harvesting flax at Killinchy, Co Down. Flax must be pulled by hand with great care otherwise useable fibres are lost. Original Publication: Picture...

In a spinning mill's 'doubling' room flax fibres that have been cleaned and combed are joined and drawn out to make a fine continuous thread....

Hand Harvesting

Street in the Ballymacarett suburb, Belfast, in the rain. Original Publication: Picture Post - 260 - Belfast - pub. 1940

Textile worker operating a Hacklong machine at an Ulster linen factory.

Flax Processing

Female workers constructing nets at a Belfast rope factory. Original Publication: Picture Post - 260 - Belfast - pub. 1940

Belfast Rope-Yard

Tractor ploughing land beside Parliament Building on the Stormont Estate. The Northern Ireland Government is having the land ploughed as part of the...

Man leading a horse and cart loaded with peat, beside a military officer in an overcoat and peaked cap consulting a map, which he rests on the wheel...

World War II - Northern Ireland

Aircraft Of The Royal Air Force 1939-1945: Bristol Type Type 149 Blenheim Iv, Six Blenheim Mark IVFs of No. 254 Squadron RAF, flying in formation...

Aircraft Of The Royal Air Force 1939-1945: Bristol Type Type 149 Blenheim Iv

Group of pedestrians and residents gather round to listen to a man speaking at an impromptu Irish language meeting in O'Connell Street, Dublin,...

Dublin Street Scene

Miss Dorothy Robertson, a farmer in the village of Dogleap, tends to her pair of Shire horses on her farm near Londonderry in Northern Ireland during...

Northern Irish Farm Scene

Two farm workers hold a litter of piglets at a farm near Londonderry in Northern Ireland during World War II on 3rd April 1940. The Ulster region is...

Northern Irish Farm Scene During Wartime

Year old farmer James O'Hare employs his two donkeys, Letty and Bob, to plough six of his eight acres of land at his farm in Dromara, County Down in...

Ulster Farmer In Wartime

'The Plantation of Ulster', 17th century, . Map: 'Plan of lands belonging to the Companies of London in Ireland'. The Plantation of Ulster was the...

The Plantation Of Ulster

Storyteller Michael Heeney relates a fairy tale in Gaelic to a gathering of villagers in a cottage in Teelin, County Donegal, March 1947. The local...

Telling Stories

Dan Baker and family eating dinner.

Irish Family at Dinner

Ambassadors visit President Douglas Hyde at Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin, Ireland, late 1930s or 1940s. Among those visible are Eamon De Valera and ST...

Mayor James Michael Curley, dressed in his raccoon coat, hands out flowers during South Boston's traditional Evacuation Day parade on March 17, 1947....

From The Archives: St. Patricks Day Parades

Army troops stationed in Northern Ireland prepare an anti-tank gun for action during exercises along the Irish coast.

Ton stainless steel fermenting tun, constructed in Leven, Glasgow, aboard the ship 'Lairdsglen' en route to the Guinness Brewery at Dublin. The tun...

An Irish Army infantry soldier carries a Lewis automatic machine gun across a parade ground at a Free State Army barracks in Ireland during World War...

Irish Free State Army Machine Gunner

Mothers chatting at the entrance to a tenement building in Dublin, circa 1945.

Army Day Parade in Belfast. The 1st Batt. Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers. 22nd October 1949

Army Day Parade in Belfast. The 1st Batt. Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers. 22nd October 1949

Princess Margaret walks through a guard of honor at the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast, where she launched the ship, Edinburgh Castle, which...

Princess Margaret Launches Ship

African American soldiers receive their rations from at a base in Northern Ireland during World War II.

Army Food Rations at American Base

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: May 1945, German U Boats escorted by British destroyers and seaplane heading for Londonderry after the German...

War and Conflict World War Two. pic: May 1945. German U Boats escorted by British destroyers and seaplane heading for Londonderry after the German surrender.

Northern Ireland, 27th January The first contingent of the American Expeditionary Force march through a town in Northern Ireland, on their way to...

Northern Ireland, 27th January, 1942, The first contingent of the American Expeditionary Force march through a town in Northern Ireland, on their way to camp ready to fight in World War Two

War and Conflict, World War II, pic: 27th January 1942, The first contingent of the U,S,A,Expeditionary Force to land on British soil since World War...

War and Conflict, World War II, pic: 27th January 1942, The first contingent of the U,S,A,Expeditionary Force to land on British soil since World War I pictured as they arrive in Northern Ireland

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: April 1942, American soldiers on the sands of Northern Ireland, enjoying a game of leapfrog

War and Conflict. World War Two. pic: April 1942. American soldiers on the sands of Northern Ireland, enjoying a game of leapfrog.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, A picture of Northern Ireland Prime Minister Sir Basil Brook

1949. Belfast, Northern Ireland. A picture of Northern Ireland Prime Minister Sir Basil Brook.

Irish Linen Earns Needed Dollars

Woman Worker in a Linen Mill in Northern Ireland, ca. 1948

Flax In An Irish Linen Factory. The flax growers and linen workers of Northern Ireland are helping Britain's post-war recovery. Last year the...

Women Making Linen in Factory in Northern Ireland, ca. 1948

Parade in Dublin passes by the Olympia Theatre, A horse and float attached with soldiers walk by, The float depicts a building, 'Clanwilliam House',...

Dublin in the 40's

150th anniversary of the 1798 rebellion parade through Dublin, circa 1948 .

150th anniversary of the 1798 rebellio

St. Patrick's Day Military Parade in Dublin, ..

St. Patrick's Day 1949

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