Historical Collections Online
Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
advertisement / Irish Opinion
Advertising sticker for the 'Irish Opinion', a weekly journal of industrial and political democracy. 'Voice of Labour Records No.4'. With a quotation from James Fintan Lalor.
leaflet / Voice of Labour
'Voice of Labour' circular. 4 page memorandum concerning the Irish Labour Press Co-Operative Society. Soliciting orders and share capital, and announcing the Irish Labour Press Co-Operative Society's takeover.
handbill / No sweating / No starvation wages
Irish Women Workers' Co-Op Society leaflet / handbill announcing Christmas sale of shirts. 'No sweating / No starvation wages'.
notice / Hotel and Restaurant Branch Strike
'To Hell with Contracts'. Hotel Industry Strike leaflet. Issued by Irish Transport and General Workers' Union re Moira, Central, Dolphin, Wicklow and Grosvenor hotels. In response to the breaking of an agreement in place for seven without notice. Possibly circa 1920.
leaflet / A Strike Breaking Army at Work
"A Strike Breaking Army at Work". 4 pages reprint of article by Erskine Childers ex Daily Herald, 26 May 1919.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch prisoner's craft work. Macrame work bag made by Domhnall Ua Buachalla when he was interned in Frongoch, 1916.
handbill / Labour Day Demonstration, 1908
Labour Day Demonstration, 3rd May 1908. Handbill re procession and mass meeting. Under the auspices of the Dublin Trades Council.
leaflet / To the Co. Dublin Workers
'To the Co. Dublin Workers', Irish Transport and General Workers' Union leaflet agitating against "a further wage cut" for farm labourers. Printed by Oliver & Grant, Dublin.
leaflet / Workers Get Together, 1908-10
'Workers Get Together'. Recruiting handbill for Irish Transport and General Workers Union, c. 1908-1910.
notice / New Kilmainham Ward, 1913-14
'New Kilmainham Ward'. Leaflet rallying labour forces to meet and organise, listing W.P. Partridge, Larkin, P.T. Daly among speakers. To be held on Friday evenings at Corporation Buildings, Tram Terminus, Islandbridge, The Ranch and Chapelizod. Printed by the City Printing Works, 13 Stafford...
sticker / James Connolly is Coming
'James Connolly is Coming'. Cummannacht na hÉireann (Socialist Party of Ireland) issued sticker. 42e Great Brunswick Street, Dublin. Printed by the Irish Ireland Printing Works, Dublin.
notice / Ireland and the International, 1918
'Ireland and the International'. Socialist Party of Ireland, 1918, handbill announcing lecture on the International by Cathal O'Shannon, at the Trades Hall, Sunday 10th March 1918.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch Prisoner's Work. Macramé bag made by Domhnall Ua Buachalla while a prisoner in Frongoch, 1916
circular / A Call to Arms
'A Call to Arms'. 'Irish Worker' Circular over name of Larkin soliciting subscriptions for shares. The Irish Co-Operative Labour Press, Ireland.
form / Irish Co-Operative Manufacturing Society
Form of Application for Shares, addressed to the Irish Co-Operative Labour Press Ltd.
pamphlet / Irish Workers' Co-Operative Society
Booklet; Irish Workers' Co-Operative Society. 31 Eden Quay, Dublin. 4 page brochure, noting its establishment and providing information on the application for shares. Circa 1913.
booklet / Scheme for associating the general body of the workers of The Irish Co-Operative Manufacturing Society
Booklet; Scheme for associating the general body of the workers of The Irish Co-Operative Manufacturing Society with the management of the society by means of internal committees. 8 pages. Handwritten notes on the cover.
pamphlet / Master Tailors' Association, 1917
Master Tailors' Association 1917. 4 page brochure issued 4 May outlining the new Log increase by 1d per hour, subject to the use of the new machine Log, and not applied to the manufacture of service jackets or breeches; the arrangement to be re-considered six months after the declaration of Peace. ...
leaflet / Don't Wear Clothes Made by Scab Labour, 1913
'Workers, Support you Fellow Workers. Don't Wear Clothes Made by Scab Labour'. Handbill issued by Tailors' Society listing Trade Union firms and scab or non-Trade Union firms in Dublin, with the slogan, 'Help the Tailors to stamp out the Sweating System'.