The following photographs are mainly of family and friends. Where possible I have tried to place them in time and location; if in doubt I say so.

1. My father's family 1911? Dad's mother was Catherine Flanagan, from further south in County Clare. Dad used to tell that she was taught at school by Michael Cusack (of GAA fame), and that she had once caused a stir at her school by refusing to accept a school prize from Lord Gough because he had evicted her parents from their home on his land.
2. Dad's home Dad's father owned a pub, which he bought with money he earned working on the Chicag-Pacific railway. The pub is at 'Cosgrove', the third nameplate on the right hand side, Gort, County Galway) My grandfather was 'Cosgrove', but an error on my father's birth certificate led to him becoming 'Cosgrave'. I only found that out in late 1994.
3. My mother, Annie Sands Year? looking incredibly like our younger daughter, Catherine.
4. My mother and a friend, Maureen McGowan My mother's parents died in 1913 and 1918, and she and her brother and sister moved from the Clogher valley area of County Tyrone to live with an uncle (Mum's mother's brother) at 4 Howth Road, Clontarf, just down the road from where I am typing these words. I think - but cannot be certain - this photo was taken there. Was Mum about 19 in this photo? Mum trained as a teacher in the inter-denominational Marlborough Street college, but after the British left the students were split up... Mum transferred to Carysfort College in Blackrock, where I was later to work myself. Mum's father - who died in 1913 - was a student here in St Patrick's College for the years 1887-89.
5. My Mum's school St Anne's Girls National School, just beside the 'twon lake', Bailieboro.
6. Myself and my sister 'Kitty' In our 'back yard' at home in Henry Street, Bailieboro, when I was 3/4 (?) months old.
7. Tony, Aidan (I'm on his back), Kitty Bailieboro, Spring 1947.
8. All my family except my sister Marie (who took the photo?), on holiday in Blackrock, County Louth, 14th August 1948. Left to right: myself, Mum, Tony, Dad, Aidan, Kitty.
9. Myself A studio photograph taken in Colman's studio Bailieboro, about the same time as the previous photograph? The Colmans were the first to introduce photography in the town, but recently, sadly, the traditional family practice came to an end, for obvious reasons.
10. All my family except my brother Aidan, who probably took the photo, at our home, Henry Street, Bailieboro, probably in 1949.
11. Dad cigarette in mouth - I smoked with him in his schoolroom (and at home) when I was aged just 10 years - fishing at the Castle Lake, just outside Bailieboro. Summer 1957. My brother Aidan probably took that photo, as he also appears at the same scene in the following one.
12. Aidan See photo #11.
13. Aidan, me, Dad, Kitty, Mum at home.
14. 4 smokers Mum and Dad in the middle, Mrs and Mrs Paddy Kangley outside them. People from Bailieboro will know them all; the Kangleys ran a pub and newsagents. I used to but the Dandy and the Beano from them, later Charlie Buchan's Football Monthly.
15. Playing cards at the McEvoys up the road from where we lived, 1958?
16. Mum and Dad London, 18th August 1958.
17. Dad at the blackboard in his school, Bailieboro, 1960.
18. Outside Kingswood Hall of Residence Left to right: John Fricker, Richard Hoyes, Vianni Waters (at back), Ian Mucklejohn, ?, ?, Bob Pearce, myself (with milk bottle; I used to drink 4 pints every day), June 1966, at the end of our first year as undergraduates at Royal Holloway College.
19. Mary and I at a wedding in Yorkshire, Summer 1970.
20. Our wedding day 24th July 1971, Plymouth.
21. Plymouth, Summer 1972 Left to right: Margaret (Mary's younger sister), Marie (our just recently born daughter, 5th June), Mary, Frank (the happy grandfather), myself, followed by Jenny (Mary's elder sister) with her husband John, and their two children Anne and Clare.
22. myself and daughter Marie up at the water recevoir, in the hills above Jos, Nigeria, December 1974.
23. Mary and our daughter Catherine (Jos, Nigeria, 13th May 1975; Catherine was 13 days old at the time)
24. Catherine and I the same day as photo #23.
25. Catherine, myself and Mary the same day as previous. We have no earlier photos of Catherine; we did take some, but they were destroyed at the local processors. Fortunately we found out in time, and a friend - Walter Potter - took these on his camera, and they survived.
26. our daughter Marie Jos, Nigeria, 13th May 1975.
27. Mary Blackrock seafront, Dublin, Summer 1976, our first summer back in Ireland.
28. My (our) friend Bob Sandling and myself Bob and Judy's home, Stalybridge, April 1978; Bob was my great friend in the Manchester Mathematics department, 1972-74.
29. Dad with his sister Brigid Sister Mary Anthony, London, Sept 1983.
30. Mary's Mum and Dad Frank and 'Pat' Smyth (Pat was born Elizabeth McMahon), 50th wedding anniversary, 1st June 1986.
31. My friend Bob Sandling in Bob's office at the university, May 1987. I was there to give a talk on my Euclid theorem.
32. Mary Montpellier, August 1992.
33. Mary also Montpellier, August 1992.
34. myself, and RHC friends Pamela Idelson, Jimmy Graham Horton, and Graham Almandras, London, 9th JUly 1995.