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 / Lord Salisbury's Remedy for Ireland, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 21 August 1886. Titled 'Lord Salisbury's Remedy for Ireland'. Depicting a bailiff breaking down the house of an evicted family, the Royal Irish Constabulary visible in the background. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / Landlordism on the Horns of a Dilemma, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 23 October 1886. Titled 'Landlordism on the Horns of a Dilemma'. Depicting a man on the horns of a bull, the horns marked 'Coercion & No Rent.. Surrender at Discretion'. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / Brazen Balfour, 1889
Political cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, titled 'Brazen Balfour', 24 August 1889. 'Whilst the venerated Clergy of Clare are facing, day and night, every sort of weather in their efforts to comfort the sick and poor - This truculent slanderer is denouncing them from his comfortable place in the...
political cartoon / Cooking Ireland, 1887
Political cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, titled 'Cooking Ireland', 2 July 1887. A manservant informs the female figure of Erin that two gentlemen from England, named 'Victor' and 'George' wish to look around. A tag reading 'Free Land' to the left side. HH:1940.44.1-41. Collection of pictures...
political cartoon / Stone for Bread - Scene in Glencolumbkille, 1883
Political cartoon from the Weekly Freeman, 17 February 1883. Titled 'Stone for Bread - Scene in Glencolumbkille'. One of a set of fourteen Irish political cartoons, December 1881, February, June, August and October 1882 and February, March, August, September, October, November, December 1883....
banner / Cullen Land League
Land League banner, Cullen, Co. Tipperary. Green banner with gold braid trim and gold fringe along bottom. A sprig of gold shamrock in each bottom corner. Painted. Depicts Hibernia with a round tower and church in the background. Inscribed 'Cullen the right of a people is the land of people'. The...resource / Land War, Roscommon
Land War in Roscommon. Article re killing of Major Denis Mahon in 1847 ex Westmeath-Offaly Independent, 9.9.1977.resource / RIC and Evictions
Royal Irish Constabulary and Evictions. Note from a centenarian's memories, Kerryman, 13.7.1979.resource / Land Wars
Newspaper Cuttings re Land Wars. Roscommon Champion, 4, 11, 18.1; Guardian (Nenagh), 5.1.1980.
notice / No More Letting of Grasslands
Large, broadsheet sized, Land War poster. 'No More Letting of Grasslands'. No compromise with Landlordism, land-grabbing or grass land letting - God Save Ireland. HH:1939.157.1-4. Papers relating to the Irish Land League (found unregistered 11/12/1939). HH:1939.157.3 - 'No More Letting of...
photograph / Charles Stewart Parnell
Photograph, Charles Stewart Parnell. By photographer W. Lawrence, 5 & 7 Sackville Street, Dublin. HH:1941.34.1-8. Eight photographs of people associated with the Land League. HH:1941.34.7 - C.S. Parnell (with beard).
political cartoon / Remember Michelstown, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 25 February 1888. Titled 'Remember Michelstown'. Depicting George Goschen, who has been asking'in what has it' 'Remember Mitchelstown' been fruitful?' is suddenly attracted by strange writing on the wall, written in a familiar hand. With the...
political cartoon / A Saint Patrick's Day Reflection, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 17 March 1888. Titled 'A Saint Patrick's Day Reflection'. Depicting the female Erin standing before a Celtic Cross memorial to the emigrated Irishmen and women., as she points towards a ship leaving the shore. 'And still there are those who...
political cartoon / The Modern Quintus Curtius, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 21 April 1888. Titled 'The Modern Quintus Curtius'. Depicting Balfour on a donkey named 'Coercion', falling into a pit. The Modern Quintus Curtius, as described by that brilliant Tory Ashmead Bartlett, Quintus Curtius' Balfour plunges into the pit,...
political cartoon / John Dillon's body is lying in Dundalk Jail tonight, but his soul goes marching on, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 30 June 1888. Titled 'John Dillon's body is lying in Dundlak Jail tonight, but his soul goes marching on', Spoken at Dundalk by William O'Brien, June 20. Depicts John Dillon lying on a jail bed, dreamig of Home Rule. With verse. Collection of...
photograph / Eviction scene, 1880s
Photograph of an eviction scene. In the 1880s showing the breaching of a wall of a thatched cottage by a battering ram which suspended from a tripod is partly in the house. From a lantern slide originally belonging to Maud Gonne.
photograph / Eviction scene, 1880s
Photograph of an eviction scene. In the 1880s showing the breaching of a wall of a thatched cottage by a battering ram which suspended from a tripod is partly in the house. From a lantern slide originally belonging to Maud Gonne.
photograph / Eviction scene, 1880s
Photograph of an eviction scene. In the 1880s showing the breaching of a wall of a thatched cottage by a battering ram which suspended from a tripod is partly in the house. From a lantern slide originally belonging to Maud Gonne.
watercolour / Serving a Writ in Ireland
'Serving a Writ in Ireland'; pen, ink and watercolour sketch, by William Sadler III (probably). Showing whitewash thatched cottage with woman's face appearing in the window. Writ is being served by a humorous, slightly simian figure in battered clothing and top hat. Two more sinister figures reach...