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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.
photograph / The Lockout Martyrs banner, 1913
Irish Transport and General Workers Union Banner. Four F.P. prints of No. 19 Branch Banner showing Connolly on one side and a baton charge scene 1913 on the other with legend "The Lockout Martyrs." Black and white / monochrome prints, two of each side.
newspaper / The Irish Worker, 23 August 1913
Copy of 'The Irish Worker', Vol. III, No. 14, 23 August 1913. Edited by Jim Larkin.
newspaper / The Workers' Republic, 15 April, 1916
Copy of 'The Workers' Republic', Vol. 1, No. 47. Saturday 15 April, 1916.
newspaper / The Workers' Republic, 22 April 1916
Last published issue of 'The Workers' Republic', dated Saturday April 22, 1916.
cartoon / Dublin Labour War / James Larkin
Postcard cartoon. Dublin Labour War. James Larkin shining a spotlight on the words Poverty, Hunger, Dirt, Vice, Municiple Corruption, Police Brutality. Referring to the activities during the 1913 Lockout period. By Ernest Kavanagh, 1914 (E.K. 1914 in corner).
letter / Joseph Fels / Larkin, 1913
Holograph letter, Joseph Fels, 10 Cornwall Terrace, Regents Park, N.W. to James Larkin, 5 October 1913, inviting him to stay with Fels while in London. 1 page. All items in this collection - with exception of No. 3 - appear to have come from Liberty Hall. No. 9 was taken from there by Major...
letter / Packet Porters, Kingston Pier / Larkin
Manuscript letter, in pencil - from The Packet Porters, Kingstown Pier, to James Larkin, directed through James Connolly, 3 October 1913 - regarding increase in wages. 4pages.
poem / The Trial / The Mind of the Workers
Leaflet with two poems - 'The Trial' and 'The Mind of the Workers'. Workers' propaganda, period of the 1913 strike. By W. Travers, 18 Nicholas Street, Dublin. Written in pencil.
propaganda / Man's Inhumanity to Man
Manuscript copy of "Man's Inhumanity to Man, or the D.M.P. Assassins". Workers propaganda, period of the 1913 Strike / Lockout. By W.Travers, 18 Nicholas Street, Dublin. Two full pages and a small page section containing one verse.
booklet / The Facts Concerning Larkin's Departure to America
Political pamphlet, "Some pages from Union History, The Facts Concerning Larkin's Departure to America". Reprinted from 'The Voice of Labour' of April 12 1924. Second edition. Published by the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, 35 Parnell Square, Dublin, 1927.
postcard photograph / Belfast Strike, 1907
Postcard photograph. Belfast Strike - Motor vans, in reality steam lorries, under police escort. No date printed, but 1907. Photograph by Baird of Belfast. Published by Walton of Royal Avenue, Belfast.
newspaper / Labour Leader, 30 Dec. 1920
Issue of the newspaper 'Labour Leader', 30 December 1920, Vol. 17, no. 53. With title article 'A New Year "Sursum Corda!"
newspaper / Labour Leader, 27 Jan 1921
Issue of the newspaper 'Labour Leader', 27 January 1921, Vol. 18, no.4. With title article 'Foreign Policy , Political Action and Employment'.
newspaper / Labour Leader, 10 June 1921
Issue of the newspaper 'Labour Leader', 10 June 1921, Vol. 18, no.23. With title article '5,000,000 Workers Up Against it'.
membership card / Irish Transport and General Workers Union, 1913
Irish Transport and General Workers Union card signed by James Connolly as Branch Secretary, dated 1913 no. 11033 for member Pat O'Connor, aged 24 of 49 Harding(?) Street, in the Belfast Branch.
handbill / Dublin United Trade Council, 1918
Thomas Johnson, discrimination, 1918. Dublin United Trade Council circular of 26 July, re victimisation over anti-conscription campaign.
handbill / Irish Trade Union Congress and Conscription, 1918
Irish Trade Union Congress and Conscription, 1918. Leaflet with pledge and resolution from 20 April Convention.
delegate card / International Socialist Congress, 1919
International Socialist Congress, 1919. Irish Delegation William O'Brien's bilingual card.
photograph / The Daily Sketch, 2 Sept 1913
Front page from "The Daily Sketch", September 2, 1913. Photograph of James Larkin speaking from verandah of Imperial Hotel, O'Connell Street, with the title 'How Mr James Larkin, the Dublin Strike Leader, addressed his supporters from a hotel verandah disguised as an old man'. Larkin appears to be...