Historical Collections Online

 

armlet / 1941 Commemoration

1916 survivors armlet issued for 1941 Parade. Green poplin with orange borders and the volunteer badge in gold dividing the date 1916 in centre. 15" long x 4.1" high.

 

armlet / 1916 Commemoration, 1941

1916 Survivor's armlet, issued for 1941 Commemorative Parade. Green poplin with orange borders and the volunteer badge in gold dividing the date 1916 in centre.

 

War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Patrick Sweeney

War of Independence service medal with suspending ribbon and 'Comhrac' bar (Active Service) in presentation box with a circular attaching a mounted cutting for lapel wear. As presented to Patrick Sweeney, E. Co. 4th Batt.

 

letter / Surrender, Patrick H. Pearse, 1916

Letter from Brigadier General Lowe to Patrick Pearse at 2.6 p.m., 29th April 1916, from the Crown Hotel, Dublin, concerning surrender terms. Contemporary manuscript copy of.

 

photograph / I.R.A. Court, Westport, 1920

Photograph of I.R.A. Court in Session in Westport Town Hall Summer 1920 showing Conor Maguire presiding with Edward Moane on his left and John O'Boyle on his right. One of IRA policemen is Sean Gibbon. Full plate.

 

photograph / John Redmond, 1909

Autographed photograph of John Redmond. Copyright - 1909 - Hailen NY. 937 x 12.3 ins.

 

propaganda sheet / Destruction of Four Courts

Handbill issued by the Free State (Provisional Government) on the destruction of the Four Courts, 30 June 1922.

 

prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921

Autograph book kept in Ballykinlar Camp in 1921. Including drawings, paintings, poems etc., by various prisoners.

 

letter / Pearse / Mahon, 1916

Holograph manuscript letter from Patrick H. Pearse to Mr Mahon, 1st March 1916. Enclosing article for the Emmet Commoration Programme.

 

plaque / Patrick Pearse

Cast aluminium plaque showing Patrick Pearse in profile in high relief with crossed tricolours behind his head, the white band on left showing 1916 and that on right FF. Above, a crude version of a Volunteer badge with SINN FEIN ABU on a ribbon across. On revised border above, IN MEMORY OF: on band...

 

photograph / Count George Noble Plunkett

Full plate photograph of Count George Noble Plunkett. With insignia of his title around his neck and on his lapel.

 

carving / Ballykinlar, 1921

Wooden plague carved by prisoner in Ballykinlar in 1921. Heart shaped 8.5 ins. long with another heart shape cut out in centre probably for a photograph - out of which a cross appears on right and a scroll terminating in the word LOVE on left. on sides T CASSIDY NO.26 HUT 35 CAMP NO 1 and...

 

photograph / Midland Volunteer Force, Athlone, September 1913

Photograph of the Committee of the Midland Volunteer Force, Athlone, September 1913. Pictured in the back row left to right is Peter O'Brien, Alfred Warby, Sean O'Mullany and Patsy Downey. In the front row left to right is R. Michael Curley, James Gough and Patrick Croghan.

 

photograph / Midland Volunteer Force, September 1913

Photograph of a group of Midland Volunteer Force (Irish Volunteers), Athlone, September 1913. Showing Sean O'Mullany, (Honouable Secretary) with notebook collecting from James Gough, offering a coin. Others in picture left to right are R. Michael Curley, Patrick Croghan and Alfred Warby.

 

photograph / Midland Volunteer Force, Athlone, 1914

Photograph of the Midland Volunteer Force (Irish Volunteers) Inspection, Fair Green, Athlone, 1914. Showing officer party in front of the ranks. Third from the left is Colonel Maurice Moore.

 

photograph / Midland Volunteer Force, Athlone, 1914

Photograph of the Midland Volunteer Force (Irish Volunteers) Inspection, Fair Green, Athlone, 1914. Showing Colonel Maurice Moore addressing the ranks.

 

photograph / Irish Volunteers, Coosan Training Camp, 1914

Photograph, eleven Irish Volunteers, in uniform, outside tents at Coosan Training Camp, Summer 1914.

 

photograph / Irish Volunteers, Coosan Training Camp, 1914

Group photograph, fourteen Irish Volunteers, in uniform, in two rows outside tents at Coosan Training Camp, Summer 1914.

 

photograph / Irish Volunteers, Coosan Training Camp, 1914

Group photograph, fifteen uniformed Irish Volunteers, in two rows, against a background of a wall, bushes, trees and tents at Coosan Training Camp, Summer 1914.

 

photograph / Clonfin Ambush, Longford, 1921

Two photographs, showing the scene of the Clonfin Ambush, 2 February 1921,in which four member of the Auxiliaries were killed and eight wounded in a bomb attack on a army truch by the North Longford Flying Column.