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.
photograph / Irish Cavalry, 1922
Snapshot photograph of Irish Cavalry troop in 1922 taken during review in Phoenix Park before the Irish Civil War.photograph / Free State Army Colour Party, 1922
Free State Army Colour Party 1922. Snapshot photograph, showing party followed by horseman against background of ranks in array, taken in Phoenix Park during a review before outbreak of Civil War.
uniform / Free State Army, General Richard Mulcahy
Officers Uniform Jacket, Free State Army. Originally belonging to General Richard Mulcahy. Field-green woollen Irish Army officers jacket, with insignia on epaulettes and collar denoting rank of General, and with brass buttons showing the harp. No maker's name.
document / Report on burning of McGarry's House, 1922
'Report on burning of McGarry's House'. Typed document, on plain paper, from a Brigade official possibly to Mrs. Farnan, detailing an attack on "McGarry's House, where a child may have been in danger", the Brigade burning Sean McGarry's house down, December 1922.
cap / Free State Army, General Richard Mulcahy
Officers Uniform Cap, Free State Army. Originally belonging to General Richard Mulcahy. Field-green officers cap with embroidered insignia, leather band and trim. Size 6 - 7. Dark green military peaked cap with a badge at the centre front and a two pieces of dark brown leather forming a strap above...
flag / Four Courts surrender, 1922
Flag carried by Father Albert at Four Courts surrender. Tricolour. Given to Feehan family by Mrs. Sinead de Valera. Accompanying note reads 'This flag was carried by Fr Albert on the day of the surrender of the garrison of the Four Courts. He carried the flag from post to post to get all the...
note / Four Courts surrender, 1922
Note explaining providence of the flag carried at the surrender of the Four Courts garrison, 1922. 'This flag was carried by Fr Albert on the day of the surrender of the garrison of the Four Courts. He carried the flag from post to post to get all the republican soldiers to surrender'.
newsheet / Freeman's Journal, 30 March 1922
Newsheet printed by the Freeman's Journal, Dublin, Thursday 30 March 1922. 'Suppressed Again' What Greenwood, Macready, Strickland, the British Army, the Auxiliaries and the Black and Tans failed to do, the patriots of the seceding section of the IRA have done. rather they think they have done it....
poster / Stop Press, no. 5
Copy of Stop Press - 'War News', dated 1st July 1922; Republican propaganda.
photograph / Dublin, Civil War
Photograph of a street, with a road barricade visible in the distance, taken from an interior space through a window. Civil War, Dublin.
photograph / Dublin, Civil War
Photograph of ruins in Dublin after the Irish Civil War. 1922.
photograph / Dublin, Civil War
Photograph of destroyed buildings, possibly taken in Dublin during the Civil War.
notebook / Liam Mellows, 1922
Note book used by Liam Mellows with notes by him. Maroon leather cover, 4.5" by 2.5" (closed), made by J.C. Konig and Ebhardt, Hanover, with block of tear-off pages attached in front (inside) and pocket for loose leaves at back (inside). Several pages remaining in block and in pocket (included in...
legal document / Republican Parish Court, Dublin, 1922
Documents relating to Republican Parish Court, South City, Dublin. Assault, April 1922.
legal document / Republican Parish Court, Dublin, 1922
Documents relating to Republican Parish Court, South City, Dublin. Illegal possession of clothes, May 1922.
legal document / Republican Parish Court, Dublin, 1922
Documents relating to Republican Parish Court, South City, Dublin. Assault and illegal possession, May 1922.
legal document / Republican Parish Court, Dublin, 1922
Documents relating to Republican Parish Court, South City, Dublin. Contempt of Court, May 1922.
legal document / Republican Parish Court, Dublin, 1922
Documents relating to Republican Parish Court, South City, Dublin. Forcible and illegal possession, May 1922.
legal document / Republican Parish Court, Dublin, 1922
Documents relating to Republican Parish Court, South City, Dublin. Embezzlement, June 1922.