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.
photograph / Mrs. Brown's Farm, Meelin, Co. Cork, 1921
Photograph taken at Meelin, Co. Cork, circa January 1921. Shows the scene of an ambush - the farm belonging to Mrs. Brown after an official reprisal. Photographer's note states this to be the first photograph taken at the moment of an official reprisal. Some of the furniture was brought out of the...
photograph / Auxiliary Royal Irish Constabulary, 1920-1921
Photograph of three Auxiliary members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Armed, one with a rifle, standing on a town or city street. 1920 to 1921. 7.5 inches by c.5.5 inches.
photograph / Carnegie Library, Cork, 1920
Photograph of the Carnegie Library, Cork, taken after it was gutted by fire in the burning of Cork in December 1920.
photograph / Mountjoy Prison, March 1921
Photograph taken outside Mountjoy Prison, 13 March 1921. Shows women carrying banner inscribed 'England Executes / Prisoners of War'. 7.5 inches by c.5.5 inches.
photograph / Templemore, October 1920
Photograph taken at Templemore, dated 29 October 1920. Shows a young boy nailing boards across a broken window damaged in a reprisal by British troops for an ambush in the locality in which soldiers were shot. 4.5 inches by 6.25 inches.
photograph / Burial, Glasnevin, 1921
Photograph taken at Glasnevin, 1921, at a burial. Titled 'A Funeral in Ireland' by the photographer.
photograph / Mrs Whelan, Mountjoy Executions
Photograph taken outside Mountjoy Pison, 13 March 1921. Shows Mrs. Whelan, mother of Thomas Whelan, and crowd of people. c.7.5 inches by 5.5 inches.
photograph / Funeral, Cork, March 1921
Photograph taken of the funeral of the six men, members of 'C' Company, First Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade, killed by a party of Black and Tans and R.I.C. at Ballycannon, Clogheen, Co. Cork, in March 1921 (also known as the Kerry Pike Shootings). Dated 27 March 1921. Shows attendants kneeling in...
photograph / Street barricade, Dublin, 1916
Photograph of a street barricade, Dublin, 1916.
photograph / Train search, Gortalea and Farranfore, Kerry, February 1921
Photograph of officers searching a passenger's luggage on board a train between Gortalea and Farranfore Station, Co. Kerry, dated 17 February 1921. The train was held up between the stations and surrounded by British Troops who then searched all aboard.
photograph / Thomas Bryan
Photograph of Thomas Bryan, who was executed in Mountjoy Prison in 1921, with his wife. Head and shoulders. 6.25 inches by 3.75 inches.
photograph / Jeremiah O'Mullane, Cork No. 1 Brigade, 1921
Photograph of Jeremiah O'Mullane, one of the six men men, members of 'C' Company, First Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade, killed by a party of Black and Tans and R.I.C. at Ballycannon, Clogheen, 5 miles from Cork City, in March 1921. Their funeral service was in Cork Cathedral, where their bodies were...
photograph / Mountjoy Executions, 1921
Photograph of postal workers outside the General Post Office, Dublin, 14 March 1921. The Irish Labour Party had decreed that there would be no work done until 11a.m. on that morning on account of the six executions in Mountjoy Prison. c.7.5 inches by 5.5 inches.
photograph / Siege of Tralee, November 1920
Photograph of ruined printing works belonging to Mr Quinnell of Tralee, Co. Kerry, destroyed during the siege of Tralee, November 1920.
photograph / Miss Bowes' body shield, January 1921
Photograph of two British soldiers or Auxiliaries, pictured with the steel body shield worn by Miss Bowes, aged fourteen, when she was arrested. She also had two revolvers on her, and was sentenced to seven years in a reformatory. January 1921. Photograph 8.125 by 6.25 inches.
photograph / Cork City Hall, December 1921
Photograph of the interior of Cork City Hall, showing the Organ Gallery, after the burning, 11 December 1921. Photograph 7.625 BY 5.75 inches.
photograph / St Enda's School, 1921
Photograph of Cullenswood House, St Enda's School, March 1921. Shows British soldiers at work on its destruction as an official reprisal. 7.625 inches by 5.875 inches.
photograph / Patrick Street, Cork, December 1920
Photograph taken in Cork City after the burning, 11 December 1920, showing devasted Patrick Street, Photograph c.5.5 inches by 3.5 inches.
photograph / First Envoys of the Irish Republic, c. 1919
Photograph of first the envoys of the Irish Republic. Studio portrait by Sean Hurley, 37 Grafton Street, Dublin. Left to right - Art O Briain, Harry Boland, George Gavin Duffy and Sean T. O'Kelly. Names handwritten onto mount. Mounted photograph 8 by 6.5 inches,