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.
political cartoon / Valuing Him, 1882
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 18 November 1882. Titled 'Valuing Him'. Depicting Court Valuer valuing the turnip crop per acre of Maguire's land.
song book / Songs of the Irish Land War
Song book with sheet music, Songs of the Irish Land War, by Thomas S. Cleary.
political cartoon / The Devils Work, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 3 March 1888. Titled 'The Devils Work'. Depicting the Devil looking out from the doorway of a broken down Irish house, at the evicted family. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING THE...
political cartoon / The Tory Idea of Conciliation, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 10 December 1887. Titled 'The Tory Idea of Conciliation'. Depicting the door of an Irish home being broken in with a battering ram by Royal Irish Constabulary, Emergency men and the Fire service. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in...
political cartoon / Evicting to Death, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 20 October 1888. Titled 'Evicting to Death'. On Thursday October 11th a poor old man, 80 years of age, named James Dunne, was flung out on the side of the road by Balfour's gang of Emergency Men, although he informed them prophetically that he had...
political cartoon / Forster and the Land League, 1880
Political cartoon, 30 October 1880, publication not identified. Titled 'Moonshine'. Depicting William Forster, Chief Secretary of Ireland in Gladstone's government, attempting to reign a donkey named 'Land League', with John Bull saying 'If you are afraid of the nettles Forster, you had better...
political cartoon / A New Home in the Ould Country, 1883
Political cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, 1 December 1883. Titled 'A New Home in the Ould Country'. Sign reads 'Pat Flynn located on this farm of 25 acres by the Irish Migration Company'. One of a set of fourteen Irish political cartoons, December 1881, February, June, August and October 1882...
periscope / Land Wars
Wooden pariscope said to have been used during the Land Wars in Ireland. 1.5 inches square by 15 inches long cube. No supporting evidence received with item.
notice / No Rent
Poster, No Rent Manifesto. 'The Land War! No Rent! No Landlords Grassland'. Issued by Land League in 1881.
notice / T.S. Cleary, Opinions of the Press
Comments on the poems of Thomas Stanislaus Cleary. ' Opinions of the Press'. In printed sheet of extracts from reviews.resource / Tenants' Rights Meeting, 1880
Tenants' Rights Meeting, 1880. Article re Knockmore meeting ex Connacht Telegraph, 5.11.1980.resource / Land War, 1882
Land War, 1882. Article by M. Mullen ex Connacht Telegraph, 27.2.1980.resource / Rev. J. Crowley & Land War
Rev. J. Crowley & Land War, 1890. Article re ex Southern Star, 3.1.1981.
cartoon / Ireland As It Is, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to 'United Ireland' newspaper, 2 October 1886. Titled 'Ireland As It Is', Septeptember 1886. Series of three illustrations, 'Scenes in Kerry' by Claud Byrne, 'The Ward of Honour, New Ross Workhouse' by J.D. Reigh, and 'Eviction Scenes in Galway' by W. Theadore Parkes.
political cartoon / What the British Army and Navy Have Come To, 1890
Political cartoon, supplement to United Ireland, 16 August 1890. Titled 'What the British Army and Navy Have Come To'. Referencing the use of British Military in evictions from estates, Lord Clanricarde's estate specifically mentioned. Arthur Balfour depicted. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / Weekly Freeman, 1887
Book, bound volume, of circa fifty political cartoons and corresponding verses which had appeared in the 'Weekly Freeman' newspaper in 1887. Largely deals with Charles Stewart Parnell, Home Rule and the Land League Movements. Published weekly as a supplement between 4 December 1886 and 12 November...
political cartoon / Peace Without Honour, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 31 March 1888. Titled 'Peace Without Honour'. Depicting a man, 'T.W.R.' on the tail of his jacket, climbling through the window of the National Party. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING...
political cartoon / Ventriloqism Extraordinary, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 28 April 1888. Titled 'Ventriloqism Extraordinary'. Depicting Balfour operating a puppet dressed as a Judge in a courtroom. Professor Balfour, that nororious Ventriloquist and his dolls, have been doing the country with great satisfaction to...
political cartoon / The New Papal Nuncio, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 5 May 1888. Titled 'The New Papal Nuncio'. Depicting Balfour dressed in red clerical robes, showing a female Erin a decree from Rome. Erin stands with a crucifix and a document titled 'Land Agitation'. Balfour, who has got on a suit which is kept in...