Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Throughout the country one can see evidence of the recent civil war. Bridges were blown up by the score. The new white stone section of those indicates the part which has been rebuilt in the reconstruction work. Land of New Plans. On December 6, 1922, the Irish Free State took its place as a distinct government. Since that date new plans have been developed to promote particularly the interests of agriculture and to establish new sources of hydro-electric power for industry, The Free State includes three southern provinces with their twenty-three counties and three counties of the province of Ulster."
