badge / Michael Collins, Irish Volunteers
badge / Michael Collins, Irish Volunteers
badge / Michael Collins, Irish Volunteers
Irish Volunteers uniform button. Circular brass button attached to pin, showing the initials "I.V." on either side of a harp. A paper note attached reads "From Michael's Tunic 27.8.1922". From an Irish Volunteers Tunic. Said to have been worn by Michael Collins at Béal na mBláth, 1922. The pencil note attached to it may have been written by Colonel Joe O'Reilly.;
Michael Collins, Irish Volunteers
Object Number:
HE:1995.22 (temp.)
Institution:
NMI
Date:
19201922
Creator:
Caulfield, J.P., and Sons
Place of production:
London (England)
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