Gallery of images associated with Image History initiatives In 2003 Ireland was host to the Special Olympics; towns were assigned random countries to host     Composite photograph, c. 1957, showing clearing of fields and the transition to suburbs     View from a student apartment, onto the back of a pub in Cork   Photograph taken at night, in search of noctournal earwigs     A small amoeba with anastomosing filamentous pseudopods (branching twiglike arms that fuse with one another when they touch)     Gouache of a spoonlike mushroom, Gyrocephalus rufus, by Bill Dilger, 1955