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.
contribution card / Amalgamated Union of Cabinet Makers
Members' contribtion card of the Dublin Branch of the Amalgamated Union of Cabinet Makers, 1916. Unused.
political cartoon / Equality First, Fraternity Afterwards, 1882
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 30 Spetember 1882. Titled 'Equality First, Fraternity Afterwards'. Two men casting a ballot at the Parliamentary Election, Trades Union Congress poster in the background.
handbill / No sweating / No starvation wages
Irish Women Workers' Co-Op Society leaflet / handbill announcing Christmas sale of shirts. 'No sweating / No starvation wages'.
tobacco pouch / Jim Larkin
Rectangular brown leather pocket book / wallet with fold over flap and snap fasteners. The tobacco pouch said to have belonged to Jim Larkin (See letter 1995.39.2).
letter / Jim Larkin
Letter from Delia Colgan to Paddy Mooney, regarding the tobacco pouch which belonged to Jim Larkin.
buttonhole badge / Markievicz, Irish Transport Workers' Union, 1913
Buttonhole badge of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, 1913. Brass with red enamel. In the form of an open right hand on which appears I.T./1913/W.U. Inspector Michael Mannion states that this badge was worn by Countess Markievicz during the Labour troubles in 1913, and that it 'was stolen from...
buttonhole badge / Irish Transport Workers' Union, 1915
Buttonhole badge. Irish Transport Workers' Union 1915. Shield-shaped metal badge, with blue enamel. Inscribed on the front in brass lettering is three crowns with 'I.T.W.U. 1915'. Maker not marked. Relic of the fighting in Dublin during the 1916 Rising.
badge / Metropolitan House Painters, 1913
Labour Day badge, 1913. 3 inches by 4 inches long. White silk ribbon with braided border all round and with 1 inch metal thread fringe all round and plain steel pin. In green letters across / METROPOLITAN / HOUSE / PAINTERS / TRUSTEE with a straight line above and below / LABOUR DAY / 1913
postcard / 1913 Lockout
Postcard cartoon by Ernest Cavanagh. Satirising William Martin Murphy and the Scottish Borderers and listing people killed in the 1913 baton charge and the 1914 shootings at Bachelors Walk.
handbill / Irish Tramway Men's Union, 1913
1913 Strike leaflet, headed 'Dublin Tramwaymen's Fight/For Freedom and Justice!'. Handbill, Irish Tramway Men's Union, 1913.
leaflet / I.T.G.W.U. Election, 1919
Irish Transport and General Workers' Union Election 1919. Handbill listing candidates and times of ballot.
article / Nineteen-Thirteen - its Significance
'Nineteen-Thirteen - its Significance'. By William O'Brien, Secretary, Dublin Lockout Committee, 1913. 4pp. reprint of William O'Brien's article, ex An Dion, December 1934.
handbill / Workers Support your Fellow Workers - Don't Wear Clothes Made By Scab Labour, 1913
Anti-Sweating handbill, issued by the Tailors' Society and listing Trade Union and non-Trade Union firms. .Workers Support your Fellow Workers - Don't Wear Clothes Made By Scab Labour'. 1913.
handbill / Lock out in the Tailoring Trade, 1913
'Lock Out in the Tailoring Trade'. Tailoring trade Lockout. Handbill re-issued by the Irish Tailors & Tailoresses Union. 1913.
leaflet / Gleeson and Blacklegging, 1913
Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses handbill. Gleeson and Blacklegging. Stating that 'Two months ago we informed the public that Gleeson of 11 Upper O'Connell Street had locked out his Trade Union tailors, abolished his workshop, and now gets all his works made in sweating dens by...
leaflet / Don't Wear Clothes Made by Scab Labour, 1913
'Workers, Support you Fellow Workers. Don't Wear Clothes Made by Scab Labour'. Handbill issued by Tailors' Society listing Trade Union firms and scab or non-Trade Union firms in Dublin, with the slogan, 'Help the Tailors to stamp out the Sweating System'.
card / Rotunda Ward, 1908
1908 Rotunda Ward polling card of M.O'Flanagan "The Irish-Ireland and Labour Candidate".
card / North City Ward
North City Ward polling card for Labour candidates E.W. Stewart and William McLoughlin. Used as a tally card.
card / North City Ward
North City Ward Polling card for Labour candidates E.W. Stewart and William McLoughlin. Used as a tally card.