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badge / The Spirit of Freedom

Irish Militant Republican Badge; with a golden bird carrying a machine gun on a green background. 'The Spirit of Freedom'. Enamelled metal. One of three badges bought at a Republican Stall, at Beechmount, Falls Road, Belfast, on the Saturday before the 75th. Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916,...

badge / Easter Rising, commemoration

Badge, representation of the G.P.O., Dublin, in flames, and a combatant with a tricolour flag in foreground. With the words 'i gcuimhne aiséirí' dividing 19 / 16. One of three badges bought at a Republican Stall, at Beechmount, Falls Road, Belfast, on the Saturday before the 75th. Anniversary of...

pay book / Peter Cleary, 1940

Army Book 64 Soldiers Service & Pay book: Peter Cleary 7077261, Enlisted Belfast 5 February 1940. British Army.

photograph / I.R.A., West Belfast, 1921

Photograph showing group No. 2 Section, I.R.A., West Belfast, 1921, on parade and firing practise at the Quarry at Hannalstown(?). 5 copies of, showing details. Accompanying letter says that "? and Mr McKeever knew each other and I often saw them speaking together. He lived in No. 6 Brit (?)...

photograph / I.R.A., West Belfast, 1921

Photograph showing group No. 2 Section, I.R.A., West Belfast, 1921, on parade and firing practise at the Quarry at Hannalstown(?). 5 copies of, showing details. Accompanying letter says that "? and Mr McKeever knew each other and I often saw them speaking together. He lived in No. 6 Brit (?)...

commemorative figure / Henry Joy McCracken, 1898

Staffordshire Pottery figure of Henry Joy McCracken, 14 inches high, glazed finish. Stamped on the pedestal on which is left hand rest, a flag with a harp crossed by a pike and a homemade adaptation of a scythe with "Who Fears or Speak of '98"; "1798 1898" around.

note / Belfast, 2 Oct. 1978

Diary memos, handwritten in ink on single sheet of paper, back and front. Dated 2 October 1978. Note with eyewitness account of the events in areas of Belfast, including Beechview park, Corporation Road, Westrock and Springfield Road, and British Army activities on that day.

railway timetable / Belfast / Ballymena, 1848

Printed railway timetable from Belfast to Ballymena, 3 October 1848. General Manager listed as Thomas H.Higgin. Printed by Finlay, Belfast.

coin / UVF

1968 Irish penny, stamped UVF. One of those so defaced in Belfast 1969.

resource / Belfast Harp Festival, 1792

Belfast Harp Festival, 1792. Article re ex Irish News, 26.1.1981.

political cartoon / A Cool Proposal, 1886

Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 19 June 1886. Titled 'A Cool Proposal'. Depicting a confrontation between the Royal Irish Constabulary police and an Orange mob. 'The Orange Magistrates of Belfast held a meeting and promised that they would themselves take charge of the...

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.

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.

dinner ticket / O'Connell Dinner, 1841

O'Connell Dinner Ticket, 1841. Printed, signed Edward O'Rorke, for the reception on 18 January 1841 at Chichester Street, Belfast. Wax seal in corner. Mounted and framed with trade label of W.J. Irvine, Ann Street, Belfast on back.

handbill / Belfast trade boycott, 1921

Handbill, listing the companies in Ireland, England and Scotland blacklisted during the Belfast trade boycott, dated April 1921. The list includes and supplements the original issue.