Historical Collections Online

 

pencil / 'Emergency'

One of three Emergency Quality pencils c.1940s. Two partly pared bearing the legend 'Made in Ireland "Oifig an tSothathair" Emergency Quality HB; the unpared one has a similar legend but without 'made in Ireland' impressed into the wood.

 

newspaper / United Ireland, May 1882

Copy of 'United Ireland' newspaper, 20 May 1882.

 

postcard photograph / Graves of Eoghan Rua O'Neill and Myles the Slasher

Graves of Eoghan Rua O'Neill and Myles the Slasher. Postcard photograph, c.1910, of section of Cavan Cemetery. Black and white.

 

postcard photograph / Robert Emmet's Grave

Robert Emmet's Grave. Coloured postcard photograph of his grave in St. Michan's, c.1900.

 

postcard photograph / Oliver Bond's House

Oliver Bond's House. Coloured postcard photograph of Lower Bridge Street, including the house with its memorial tablet, c.1900.

 

postcard / Robert Emmet's Arms Depot

Robert Emmet's Arms Depot. Coloured photograph of "Dirty Lane", the Depot marked with a white cross, c.1900.

 

tram ticket / Dalkey Line, 1910

Dalkey Line tram ticket c.1910. Dublin United Tramways Company. No.VM4216. Pale blue in colour.

 

walking stick / Nationalist symbols

Walking stick carved along the shaft with Nationalist motifs and names. A sunburst over a harp over 'Erin' with reading down as stick is revolved to left - O'Connell, Butt, Parnell, Redmond, Biggar, Davitt, Devlin, Dillon, T.P. O'Connor, and Harrington. Shamrock sprays throughout. Probably...

 

resource / Elections in Louth, 1760-66

Elections in Louth 1760-1766. Xeroxprint of calendar in Public Records Office of Northern Ireland (D562/1760), of letter dated 17 September 1766 from James Fortesue to Anthony Foster concerning forthcoming and past elections.

 

resource / Grace/Mara Vendetta, 1827

The Grace/Mara Vendetta, 1827, article from Nationalist (Clonmel), 9.10.1976.

 

resource / Leitrim in 1798

Leitrim in 1798. Article from the Leitrim Observer 9.10.1976

 

resource / Histories of Ardagh and Leitrim

Manuscript Histories of Ardagh and Leitrim. Articles from Longford Leader, 8.10.1976 re compilations by Jim Sweeney (Ardagh) and Patrick Doherty (Cloone)

 

resource / Grace/Mara Vendetta, 1827

Grace/Mara Vendetta, 1827. Article from (Clonmel) Nationalist 23.10.1976

 

resource / Battle of Plassey in its Cork and Limerick Aspects

Battle of Plassey, 1757, in its Cork and Limerick Aspects. Article by Spike Hennessey re Clive Lally and Laurence Sullivan from Limerick Weekly 16.10.1976.

 

resource / Grace/Mara Vendetta, 1827

Grace/Mara Vendetta, 1827. Article from the Clonmel Nationalist 23.10.1976.

 

newspaper / The Police Gazette, 15 january 1867

Copy of the Hue and Cry. Mounted, framed and glazed copy of the Police Gazette of 15 January 1867 offering £1,000 for the escaped Fenian, James Stephens.

 

resource / Francis Ledwidge

Francis Ledwidge. Cutting from the Meath Chronicle 23.10.1976 re memorial lecture.

 

print / Young Ireland Commemoration Mat

Young Ireland Commemoration mat from Montreal Tavern. "Nine Famous Irishmen" recording the post transportation achievements of Frank Meagher, Terence McManus, Patrick Donahue, Richard O'Gorman, Morris Leyne, Thomas D'Arcy McGee and John Mitchell (sic.) (paper)

 

resource / Irish Neutrality, WWII

Saturday Evening Post on Irish Neutrality. Newspaper cutting containing excerpts from SEP riposte to comments by George Bernard Shaw on Irish neutrality in World War II.

 

resource / Land League membership card

Land League membership card. Illustrated article from the Donegal People's Press 5.11.1976.