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 / Thomas Sexton
Photograph of Thomas Sexton (possibly), one of a set of photographs of persons associated with the Land League. Photograph by A. Lesage, Printmaker, Framemaker, picture restorer and artisis' colourman, 40 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with...
photograph / Patrick Egan
Photograph of Patrick Egan (possibly), one of a set of photographs of persons associated with the Land League. Photograph by W. Lawrence, 5 and 7 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.2 - Egan (possibly.)
photograph / John Dillon
Photograph of John Dillon, one of a set of photographs of persons associated with the Land League. Photograph by W. Lawrence, 5 and 7 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.3 - John Dillon.
photograph / Charles Dawson
Photograph of Charles Dawson, Lord Mayor of Dublin. One of a set of photographs of persons associated with the Land League. Photograph by W. Lawrence, 5 and 7 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.4 - Charles...
photograph / Timothy Daniel Sullivan
Photograph of Timothy Daniel Sullivan. One of a set of photographs of persons associated with the Land League. Photograph by A. Lesage, Photographer to the Catholic Hierarchy, 40 Lower Sackville Street, Dublin. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with the Land League....
photograph / Charles Stewart Parnell
Photograph of Charles Stewart Parnell. One of a set of photographs of persons associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.6 - C.S. Parnell (without beard).
photograph / John Manderville
Photograph of John Manderville. One of a set of photographs of persons associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.8 - John Manderville.
political cartoon / The League and the Leprechaun, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 14 April 1888. Titled 'The League and the Leprechaun'. Depicting an Irish man, representing the Land League, holding a small sized Balfour. The League, who has just caught a Leprechaun - 'An' so you imp of falsehood, you have been tellin' them over...
political cartoon / The Kerry Bull and the Kerry Buller, 1886
Political Cartoon. 'United Ireland', 25 September 1886. Entitled 'The Kerry Bull and the Kerry Buller' depicting Buller being tossed by a black Kerry bull (land agitation on the increase since his arrival). By J.D. Reig.
membership card / Irish National Land League, 1880s
Membership card of the Irish National Land League. Green and orange, 4.6 inches x 3 inches with slogans 'Ireland for the Irish', 'Down with Landlordism', 'Keep a firm grip of your Homesteads', and 'The land for the people'.
letter / Matthew Harris on the Political Situation, 1880
'Matthew Harris on the Political Situation'. 4 page pamplet reprint of the letter from The Irishman in June 1880. Re the Land Movement.
political cartoon / The Whipping Boy, 1890
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 9 August 1890. Titled 'The Whipping Boy'. Colour print in red, black and blue - one half shows Gladstone speaking at Hawarden ; 'Why not blackthorns against batons if the people are illegally assailed'. The other shows T. Walsh, editor and...
political cartoon / Hares and Hareos, 1882
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 14 January 1882. Titled 'Hares and Hareos'. Depicting a landlord leading a hunt of British soldiers after a poacher. Reference to the Game Laws.
political cartoon / The Gale that Ought to be Hanging, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 27 January 1883. Titled 'The Gale that Ought to be Hanging'. referencing a hanging gale proviso in the Land Act.
flag / Ancient Order of Hibernians (Irish American Alliance), 1910
Banner of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (Irish American Alliance), about 1910. Poplin cloth. On one side the harp between sprays of shamrock beneath 'A.O.H.' (all painted) over a ribbon of satin applique on which is painted CLAN-NA-GAEL. This ribbon is covering an earlier painting on the cloth....
political cartoon / A Fellow Feeling, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 8 September 1888. Titled 'A Fellow Feeling'. Depicting John Bull and Lord Clanricarde (Clan-rack-hard) at a demolished house. Referring to rack-renting allowed under English law. Royal Irish Constabulary with a battering ram visible in the...
match box / Land League / Parnell, 1880
Land League matchbox, cover only. Flattened out plywood with paper covering showing on one side a portrait of Parnell with above 'The Land League' and below, 'Match' and on the other an encounter between a tenant and a landlord. 'Landlord - I want my rent. Tenant - And I want to pay my rent at...
political cartoon / The Doom of the Landlord, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 4 September 1886. Titled 'The Doom of the Landlord'. Referencing the Landlord Relief Scheme, Gladstone's Land Act and Purchase Bill. Depicted are Salisbury and Chamberlain speaking to the British Taxpayer. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / Equal Before the Law (on paper), 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 7 April 1883. Titled 'Equal Before the Law (on paper)'. Depicts a Judge assuring a landlord he will face no consequences for his dealings with a tenant.