Historical Collections Online

 

photograph / General Macready, Anglo-Irish Truce, July 1921

Photograph of General Macready arriving for Anglo-Irish Truce negotiations at the Mansion House, Dublin, 8 July 1921.

 

photograph / Arthur Griffith, Anglo-Irish Truce, 1921

Photograph of Arthur Griffith arriving at the Mansion House for Anglo-Irish Truce negotiations, 8 July 1921.

 

photograph / Mansion House, Anglo-Irish Truce, July 1921

Photograph of the scene outside the Mansion House; a section of the gathered crowd, with two American flags visible amongst them during the Anglo-Irish Truce negotiations, 8 July 1921.

 

photograph / Friends of Freedom for India, 1920

Black and white photograph of the India Freedom Dinner of the Friends of Freedom for India. With President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Republic, and "the guest of Honour 'X' ". Central Opera House. Dated February 28, 1920.

 

reference / Nicholas Moroney, 3rd Tipperary Brigade

Notebook, black cover. property of Nicholas Moroney, of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade, 7th Battalion. Contains notes on meetings 1930s to 1940. Many letters of certification for members, particulary around the Drangan area of Tipperary, in support of their applications for military pensions. Includes...

 

prayer book / Fleming Family

Copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta'. Belonging to Michael Fleming, and containing a number of letters, obituaries and other mementoes of the 1916 to the 1930s. Tóraidheacht air (sic?) Lorg Chríosda (a translation of the Imitatio Christi by Thomas a Kempis), owned by...

 

greeting card / Fleming Family

Postcard, St. Patrick's Day, handpainted with shamrock and round tower motif, with an Irish Tricolour flag flying from the tower. 'Poblacht na hEireann Abu' written below. Sent to Michael Fleming from Tessie Walsh. No date. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg...

 

photograph / Beal Atha an Ghaorthaidh, 1920-1921

Photograph; Remains of burnt motor lorry and two figures. Written on back, 'Taken by Prof. Von Sydow, remains of British military lorry, destroyed near Beal Atha an Ghaorthaidh, 1920 or 1921'. Photograph, 4 by 3 inches, taken by Professor Von Sydow of Stockholm in 1920 or 1921.

 

photograph / Burning of the Custom House, 1921

Four photographic stills from British Pathe’s film footage of the aftermath of the attack and burning of the Customs House, Dublin, 25 May 1921, by the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade, IRA, under Tom Ennis. Showing British soldiers at an armoured car, British soldiers in a truck with...

 

photograph / Patrick Street, Cork, 1920

Photograph of the devastation of Patrick Street, Cork. (Section cut out of the bottom left). Part of the destruction of the city centre in the Black and Tan Raids, 1920, during the War of Independence.

 

rifle / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916

RIC carbine rifle. Captured from R.I.C. by Irish Volunteers at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. Captured from Royal Irish Constabulary by Irish Volunteer Joseph Lawless at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. Events detailed in his witness statement to the Bureau of Military History. A brass plaque added...

 

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 / 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 / They Murder / The Innocent / In Vengeance, Mountjoy, 1921

Photograph of women outside Mountjoy Prison, 13 March 1921. The women are carrying a banner inscribed: "They Murder / The Innocent / In Vengeance".

 

dictionary / concealed pistol

Automatic pistol, concealed in a book, possibly one which had been the property of Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde (of the Irish Parliamentry Party) and left in the Gresham Hotel whence it came into the possession of donor's father, who worked in the hotel at the time. The book an 1828 edition of Noel...

 

master key / Lincoln Jail, 1919

Master key of Lincoln Jail. Made there by Peter de Loughry of Kilkenny, with which Eamon de Valera, Sean McGarry and Sean Milroy were able to escape on 4th February 1919. Two keys, iron, slightly rusted, with label - "Given to E. de Valera by Willie McMahon to whom it was given by Harry Boland...

 

photograph / Thomas Whelan, 1921

Thomas Whelan (executed 1921) in prison yard. Walking between a Black and Tan and a warder. Photograph of c.5" by 3".

 

photograph / Dáil Éireann Peace Session, 1921

Photograph of Dáil Éireann Peace Session 16 August 1921. Freeman's Journal Cashman photograph. Mounted.

 

Colt revolver / Maurice Walsh, Co. Kerry

Double action Colt revolver c. 1906, said to have belonged to Maurice Walsh of Cahirciveen, Co. Kerry and used by him in an attempted breakout from prison during the Irish Civil War. Fixed fore sight with sighting ridge on strap of six chamber cylinder. 3 checked collars on ejector rod head under...

 

tunic / Alice Cashel, Cumann na mBan, 1916-1921

Uniform jacket or tunic, Cumann na mBan, 1916 period. As worn by the donor Miss Alice Cashel. Alice Cashel was a member of the Cork Branch of Sinn Fein and a founding member, with Annie McSwiney, of the Cork Cumann na mBan, before the Irish Volunteers were established there.