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.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, November 1918. Two women harvesters.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, 1918/1919. Curling wave, about to break, foam-tipped.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, 1918/1919. Goddess.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, 1918/1919. Forest Pool, two figures in white, male and female.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, 1918. Old woman sitting at smoking woodfire.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, December 1918. Celtic woman and attendant, at brazier.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, December 1919. Tea table, Holloway Jail.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, December 1918. Dying soldier, attended by Angel.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, February 1919. Two women working in a ploughed field.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918. Waves, with nymph at foot of cliff sitting on a rock.
photograph / Sir Hamar Greenwood inspection of R.I.C., 1921
(Cashman 147) Royal Irish Constabulary, photograph of Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, inspecting fully-armed Royal Irish Constabulary at the Depot, Phoenix Park 1921.
photograph / Royal Irish Constabulary, Withdrawal, 1922
(Cashman 159) Royal Irish Constabulary. Photograph of the Royal Irish Constabulary - a semi-military force under British Rule - are here shown evacuating their quarters in Dublin Castle, February 1922 to give place to the Gárda Siochána.
photograph / Royal Irish Constabulary, 1922
(Cashman 160) Royal Irish Constabulary. Photograph of another view of the evacuation of Dublin Castle, members of the R.I.C. sorting out their tunics about to leave their quarters. 1922.
photograph / British withdrawal, Dublin Castle, 1922
(Cashman 161) British withdrawal. Photograph of the passing of the Old Regime. Changing of of the British Guard for the last time in Dublin Castle, 1922.
photograph / Gárda Siochána, R.D.S., 1922
(Cashman 162) Photograph of members of the Gárda Siochána occupying temporary quarters in the Royal Dublin Society grounds, Ballsbridge, prior to the evacuation of Dublin Castle by the British Royal Irish Constabulary.
photograph / Gárda Siochána, Dublin Castle, 1922
(Cashman 163) British withdrawal. Photograph of the first squad of Gárda Siochána led by Chief Commissioner Michael Staines and General Richard Mulcahy, marching into Dublin Castle, May 4th, 1922.
photograph / Curragh Internment Camp, 1922
(Cashman 166) Photograph of the release of Republican prisoners from the Curragh Internment Camp, 1922.
photograph / Portobello Barracks, 1922
(Cashman 169) British withdrawal. Photograph of taking over Portobello Barracks, May 1922. The Irish troops (right) are seen marching in while the British soldiers are ready to march out.
photograph / British withdrawal, 1922
(Cashman 170) British withdrawal. Photograph of the troops leaving Portobello Barracks, Dublin, May, 1922. The officer in front gives the last look back as they approach the Canal-gate.