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.
poster / No Rent
Printed poster, for the "No Rent" Campaign of the Land League. With leaders' signatures (printed)
letter / John Ryan, Dartmoor Prison, 1877
Letter written by Michael Davitt from Dartmoor Prison to John Ryan, dated 23 November 1877. Two pages. Written on official prison paper. Framed. Asking John Ryan and Mr Harran to come and visit him.
illustration / Free Trade Moryah, 1888
Political Cartoon, supplement to 'United Ireland', 1 December 1888. Titled 'Free Trade Moryah'. Evictor 'Sign, or I'll run you out'. Coercionist 'Sign, or I'll run you in'. Rack-Rented Tenant 'I shall never be able to pay the instalments'. Evictor 'I don't care a d-n. Let you and John Bull fight...
sermon / Father T. Burke
Sermon of Father T. Burke O.P., printed on satin, 1883. Titled 'Father Burke's Last Sermon On the Starving Children of Donegal'. From the Freeman's Journal, 23 June 1883. Framed and glazed. Loan receipt no. 95 sent.
notice / To The Irish People, 1881
Proclamation, 'To The Irish People'. Irish National Land League proclamation, 18th October, 1881. Regarding the arrests of the Executive members. Signed (print) by the executive members at their place of detention. Charles Stewart Parnell (Kilmainham), A.J. Kettle (Kilmainham), Michael Davitt...
notice / Boycott, c.1900
Printed notice of proposed BOYCOTT of the police and the British Army in Ireland. Printed in red on white paper, circa 1900.
list / Our Legion of Honour, 1881
Supplement to "United Ireland", 10 September 1881. Titled 'Our Legion of Honour' A Record of the Victims of the Coercion Act of 1881, decorated by and dedicated to William E. Forster, Her Majesties Chief Turnkey for Ireland. Listing those interned in various prisons - Kilmainham, Naas, Dundalk,...
poster / Land League Boycott, 1890
Land League, Printed Boycott Notice, 1890. Addressed to the Nationalists of Tipperary, and ordering them to boycott nine named farmers, merchants, and traders of the town, who it is alleged, are engaged in bringing ruin on the evicted tenants of Tipperary. Those persons who deal or communicate with...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. House and family of Mr Solomon Frost, Rossmanagher, Six Mile Bridge, Co. Clare, upon whose holding the wooden...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. Ruined home of Mr Matthias McGrath, Moyasta, Co. Clare. This house was thus demolished by the battering ram,...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. John P. Frost and family of twelve young children, outside the wooden hut erected for their shelter on the...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. Homestead of John P. Frost, wife and twelve young children, of Ranosmanagher, Six-Mile-Bridge, Co. Clare,...resource / Siege of Schull, 1881
Siege of Schull, 1881. Article re ex Southern Star, 20.12.1980.
illustration / How Long O Lord
Political Cartoon, supplement to 'Weekly Freeman', 18 February 1888. Titled 'How Long O Lord'. An old man 80 years of age, named Bartley Geary, residing at Kilkerrin, Connemara, was evicted from his dwelling house, under the New Land Act, on Thursday last, by order of the magistrates. He crept...
badge / Mitchelstown, William O'Brien, 1888
William O'Brien badge. Bronzed metal. With bust of William O'Brien and 'Mitchelstown'. Worn on the coat buttonhole by Commercial Travellers in the South of Ireland, during the Land League agitation, 1888, as a passport for orders.
photograph / A National League Hut, Murroe
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled A National League Hut, Murroe. Wooden hut with central door and two windows.
photograph / Mr Ellis taking notes, Fr Conroy interpreting, 1886
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Mr Ellis taking notes, Fr Conroy interpreting (Gaelic), Carrarhoe, September 1886.
supplement / How to Use the Arrears Act, 1882
Supplement given away with the Weekly Freeman, 16 September 1882, titled How to use the Arrears Act. Plain Directions for Poor Tenants. With the instruction to paste the notice onto a wall so he and his neighbours may have it for reference.