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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.
bulletin / The Daily Bulletin, No.111, Feb. 1923
The Daily Bulletin, issue No. 111, dated 8 February 1923. Published during the Irish Civil War. Typescript, multiple pages. One of a run of 93 issues of The Daily Bulletin, dating between 27 September 1922 to 14 February 1923. Incomplete run, missing No.s 10, 33, 36 - 39, 48, 50, 73, 84 - 94. Two...
bulletin / The Daily Bulletin, No.9, Oct. 1922
The Daily Bulletin, issue No. 9, dated 6 October 1922. Published during the Irish Civil War. Typescript, multiple pages. One of a run of 93 issues of The Daily Bulletin, dating between 27 September 1922 to 14 February 1923. Incomplete run, missing No.s 10, 33, 36 - 39, 48, 50, 73, 84 - 94. Two...
bulletin / The Daily Bulletin, No.112, Feb. 1923
The Daily Bulletin, issue No. 112, dated 9 February 1923. Published during the Irish Civil War. Typescript, multiple pages. One of a run of 93 issues of The Daily Bulletin, dating between 27 September 1922 to 14 February 1923. Incomplete run, missing No.s 10, 33, 36 - 39, 48, 50, 73, 84 - 94. Two...
bulletin / The Daily Bulletin, No.113, Feb. 1923
The Daily Bulletin, issue No. 113, dated 10 February 1923. Published during the Irish Civil War. Typescript, multiple pages. One of a run of 93 issues of The Daily Bulletin, dating between 27 September 1922 to 14 February 1923. Incomplete run, missing No.s 10, 33, 36 - 39, 48, 50, 73, 84 - 94. ...
bulletin / The Daily Bulletin, No.115, Feb. 1923
The Daily Bulletin, issue No. 115, dated 13 February 1923. Published during the Irish Civil War. Typescript, multiple pages. One of a run of 93 issues of The Daily Bulletin, dating between 27 September 1922 to 14 February 1923. Incomplete run, missing No.s 10, 33, 36 - 39, 48, 50, 73, 84 - 94. ...
bulletin / The Daily Bulletin, No.116, Feb. 1923
The Daily Bulletin, issue No. 116, dated 14 February 1923. Published during the Irish Civil War. Typescript, multiple pages. One of a run of 93 issues of The Daily Bulletin, dating between 27 September 1922 to 14 February 1923. Incomplete run, missing No.s 10, 33, 36 - 39, 48, 50, 73, 84 - 94. ...
souvenir booklet / The Rebellion in Dublin April 1916
Souvenir photograph booklet, “The Rebellion in Dublin April 1916” Collection of photographs of the destruction of the city from the 1916 rising.
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Autograph book, Ballykinlar Camp, No. 2 Camp, 1921. Includes artwork by Sean Milroy at Hut 10, G Coy, and Micheal O Riada, Charlie Saurin, Patrick Killian, B.Ryan, William Lennon-Wilson, rhyming verse and a list of prisoners on the run in October 1921.
prison art / Frongach, 1916
Macrame bag, green with the letter M on front. Contains Christmas note inside. Frongach, Christmas 1916. From a father to his daughter Muirin. Prison craftwork.
postcard photograph / Jim Larkin / 1913 Lockout
Two notes by James Connolly; 'Why I admire Jim Larkin', signed and with a photograph of Connolly, and 'What I think of the Citizen Army', signed April 20/16. With a postcard photograph of Jim Larkin, signed by him, being arrested during the 1913 Lockout.
newspaper / The Freeman's Journal, 18th April 1922
The Freeman's Journal, 18 April 1922, 6 pages. Includes articles discussing the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and an article entitled Ballot or Bullet" concerning the possibility of civil war. An illustration on the front page depicts worker and employer, with the words, "Trade, worker and employer, where do...
document / Eamon de Valera, 1964
Framed document in English and Irish, handwritten and hand painted with shamrocks and a harp. Address to Eamon de Valera and his wife, as the President of Ireland, dated 24 August 1964.
photograph / Rathmines Town Hall, 18 Nov 1925
Framed photograph and caption. Photograph depicts group of people, include de Valera outside the Rathmines Town Hall during luncheon adjournment of the private session of the Sinn Fein Ard Fheis, on 17th November, 1925, where the boycott of British goods was discussed. Published in the Daily...
prison spoon / Mountjoy, 1922
Metal spoon. Found with EWT.300, labeled 'Mementoes of Liam Mellows, Rory O'Connor, Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett', executed in Mountjoy, 1922.
poster / Plunkett, Joseph, George and John
Poster photograph of Count Plunkett's sons George and John at Richmond Military Barracks with British troops, and the subtitle "Condemned" (1916 Rising). Bottom text tells of the condemning of the Plunketts to death for their part in the Sinn Fein Rising, though only Joseph was executed, the others...
newspaper article / Anglo-Celt, Cavan,1942
Two newspaper clippings from The Anglo-Celt newspaper of Cavan, dated 25 July 1942. Concerning the origin of the term ‘Sinn Fein’, and the AOH. Collected by Dr. G.Hayes McCoy as reference.
letter / Sean Healy, 1916
Form issued by the Association of Old Fianna, to collect information for the Fianna Roll of Honour, to commemorate members of the Fianna who were killed in action or died as a direct result of their activities in the War of Independence. Issued by the Memorial Committee from an address at...
letter / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...
permit / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...