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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 / Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921
Photograph of Republican supporters probably during Treaty talks. Group includes de Valera, Sean T. O'Kelly, Cathal Brugha, Harry Boland. Photo' by London News Agency, 46 Fleet Street. 15.875 inches by 8.5 inches.
programme / Irish Republican Delegation, 1921
Souvenir programme of Irish Republican Delegation in the Albert Hall, London, 26 October 1921. Belonged to Mr M.J. Knightley.
pen / Anglo-Irish Treaty, Michael Collins
Pen originally belonging to Michael Collins, and allegedly used to sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921. Cylindrical black plastic fountain pen with detachable nib, the cap with silver shirt hook.
photograph / Irish Peace Delegation, 1921
Photograph of the Irish Peace Delegation, 1921. Taken at the Grosvenor Hotel, London, and showing the Irish Peace Delegation shortly after arrival, 1921. Sitting - Eamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith. Standing, left to right - Count George Noble Plunkett, Erskine Childers, Laurence O'Neill (L.M....photograph / Irish Peace Delegation, 1921
Photograph of the Irish Peace Delegation, 1921. Taken at the Grosvenor Hotel, London, and showing the Irish Peace Delegation shortly after arrival, 1921. Sitting - Eamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith. Standing, left to right - Count George Noble Plunkett, Erskine Childers, Laurence O'Neill (L.M....
photograph / Irish Republican T.D.s, 1921
Mounted photograph of Irish Republican T.D.'s. Probably taken during the Treaty debates, 1921. Left to right - Harry Boland, Art O'Briain, Eamon de Valera and Sean T. O'Kelly, and ( ? ). Two men hold a tricolour flag in the background. Photograph measures 9 3/8 by 6 1/2 inches.
postcard photograph / Irish Peace Delegates, 1921
Postcard photograph of the Irish Peace Delegates. The five plenipotentiaries, Eamonn Duggan, Michale Collins, Arthur Griffith, Robert Barton, and George Gavin Duffy. Individual portrait photographs in composite form.
photograph / Mansion House Conference, July 1921
Photograph of Eamon de Valera arriving at the Mansion House Conference, July 1921. Showing de Valera surrounded by a group of people.
photograph / Cathal Brugha, Mansion House Conference, July 1921
Photograph of Cathal Brugha arriving at the Mansion House Conference, July 1921.
drawing / The Puppets, 1922
Sketch or drawing, signed by Cathal McDowell (C Mac), 6 April 1922. Titled 'The Puppets'. Depicting David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister, with ventriloquist puppet versions of Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins on his knee.
photograph / Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921
(Cashman 234) The Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921. Photograph. The men who signed the Treaty snapped at Holyhead on their way to London. Left to right: Arthur Griffith, Eamonn Duggan, Robert Barton and George Gavan Duffy.
pamphlet / Clause by Clause – A Comparison between the Treaty and Document No.2, 1922
Pamphlet, National Series No. 3. ‘Clause by Clause – A Comparison between the Treaty and Document No.2’. By Erskine Childers. 1922. Printed by the Wood Printing Works, 13 Fleet Street, Dublin, and published by the ‘Republic of Ireland’, 58 Dame Street, Dublin. Priced 3d.
photograph / Irish Peace Conference, 1921
Postcard photograph of the Irish Peace Conference, July 1921, the delegates leaving Dun Laoghaire. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who...
letter / George Lyons, 15 December 1921
Letter from Michael Collins, 15 December 1921. Manuscript in ink. Thanking George Lyons (Seoirse a Laogh) for his letter and adding "the removal of the Army of occupation is a Supreme thing". Written on Dail Eireann Department of Finance headed paper. Register - Mounted behind a vellum type page...
photograph / The Truce, 1921
(Cashman 235) The Truce. After a momentous session, Arthur Griffith and Eamon de Valera leave the Mansion House together following the Truce negotiations with the British.
photograph / Patrick & Harry Loughnane, 1920
Postcard photograph showing the open coffin of one of the Loughnane Brothers, Patrick and Harry Loughnane, murdered by Crown Forces in Galway, November 1920. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming,...photograph / Anglo-Irish Truce, 1921
(Cashman 235) The Anglo-Irish Truce, 1921. After a momentous session, Arthur Griffith and Eamon de Valera leave the Mansion House together following the Truce negotiations with the British.
handbill / Heads Up!, 21 Feb. 1922
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Heads Up!’ no. 24. 21 February 1922. ‘The Irish Republic’. Anti-Treaty leaflet.
photograph / Griffith & de Valera, Mansion House Peace Conference, 1921
Postcard photograph of Arthur Griffith T.D. and Eamon de Valera T.D. at the Mansion House Peace Conference, 4th July 1921.