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.
Truce Commemoration Medal / de Valera
Service medal of Eamon de Valera. War of Independence 1921 - 1971, 50th Anniversary medal. Also known as Survivor's Medal. With ribbon.
War of Independence Service Medal, General /
War of Independence, or 'Black and Tan' medal, bronze, with symbolic coloured ribbon. No Combat bar present.
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Seán O'Keeffe, 1919-1921
Medal awarded in 1941 to participants in the War of Independence, 1919 to 1921. Awarded to Seán O'Keeffe, 3rd Battalion, B Company of Irish Volunteers (Boland's Mills Garrison in 1916). Bronze. The obverse depicts the figure of a soldier of the Irish Republican Army, surrounded by the arms of the...
ribbon /
Medal awarded by the Irish Government to participants in the Anglo-Irish War. Bronze. OBV: in the centre a figure of a soldier of the Irish Republican Army, wearing trenchcoat, leggings and cap with Sam Browne belt, revolver in holster at right side, bandolier over left shoulder, rifle slung over...
photograph / Mick McDonnell / The Squad, 1948
Photograph taken on the presentation to Mick McDonnell, Officer in Command of the Original Headquarters Squad of the Irish Republican Army, 1948. Also known as The Squad or the Cairo Gang. Included in the group are: Piaras Beaslai, Frank Thornton, Pat McCrea, Vinnie Byrne, James Slattery, Joe...
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Patrick Sweeney
War of Independence service medal with suspending ribbon and 'Comhrac' bar (Active Service) in presentation box with a circular attaching a mounted cutting for lapel wear. As presented to Patrick Sweeney, E. Co. 4th Batt.
War of Independence Service Medal, General / Marjorie Cahalane Mooney
War of Independence medal, and medal ribbon of yellow and red, in original box addressed to Mrs. Marjorie Cahalane Mooney, 14 Vevay Rd., Bray, Co. Wicklow.
miniature medal / Bob Foley
Miniature War of Independence medal with bar and ribbon which belonged to Bob Foley.
War of Independence Service Medal, General / Bob Foley
War of Independence, or Tan War, medal and ribbon which belonged to Bob Foley.
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Thomas Rath
War of Independence medal, mounted on ribbon, with Comhrac bar. With medal bar. Card with the medal reads "With the Compliments of the President of Ireland, Easter 1941, and in Irish on reverse. Issued to Thomas Rath of Milltown, Dublin.
War of Independence 50th Anniversary Medal / Thomas Rath
Medal mounted on ribbon. War of Independence Veterans' medal issued to Thomas Rath of Milltown, Dublin in 1971.
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Philip Cosgrave
War of Independence Service Medal, with active service bar ('Comhrac'). Engraved ‘No. 991, Philip Cosgrave” on the reverse. With ribbon bar in box.
1916 Medal / Philip Cosgrave
1916 Service Medal, engraved ‘No. 375, Philip Cosgrave’. With ribbon bar in box.
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Liam Mellows
War of Independence Active Service medal. Liam Mellows' Cogadh na Saoirse medal, with 'Comrac' on bar (War of Independence Active Service). Name of recipient and number 918 stamped on reverse.
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Peter Coates, I.C.A.
War of Independence Active Service medal, comhrac bar and ribbon named on reverse to Peter Coates, Irish Citizen Army. Engraved on reverse.
photograph / 3rd Tipperary Brigade, 1954
Panoramic sized photograph in composite / collage style showng surviving veterans of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade with invited Denis O'Mahony of 2nd Cork Brigade, Kilavallen Coy. then resident at Cashel. Participants shown drillling at An Tóstal, Caiseal Mumhan, 1954. Individuals named on photograph....photograph / 3rd Tipperary Brigade, 1954
Photograph of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade, Captain Paddy Ahern raising the tricolour. 3rd Tipperary Brigade, Caiseal Muiran 16 May 1954. Participants of the War of Independence.photograph / 3rd Tipperary Brigade, 1954
Group photograph of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade. Caiseal Muiran 16 May 1954. Participants of the War of Independence.photograph / 3rd Tipperary Brigade, 1954
Group photograph of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade. Caiseal Muiran 16 May 1954. Participants of the War of Independence.