Photo of front entrance to Kilmainham gaol in Dublin
alongside drawing by Des for front cover of visitors guide to the gaol

Detail from High Altar mosaic, St. Magdalene’s Church Drogheda

Controversial oil of modern day man crucifying religion in the form of Jesus Christ

Cartoon sent to his first nephew Eoin in 1947 of Des in a ‘mammoth bed’ in France²³

Detail from notice advertising art classes in a studio in Mount Street²⁴

Detail from mosaic above High Altar Drogheda

Charcoal of Desmond by Maurice MacGonigal 1946²⁵

Pencil sketch by Patrick Leonard 1942²⁶

Charcoal of Desmond by Patrick Leonard, Rush 1942²⁷