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 / The Coercion Quagmire, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 3 September 1887. Titled 'The Coercion Quagmire'. Colour print in red, blue and black on newsprint depicting Chamberlain asking Harrington, the King of England and a third man sink into the bog - 'The Coercion Quagmire'. Harrington replies 'Too...
political cartoon / Plan of Campaign - Until the Landlord Give In, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 4 February 1888. Titled 'Plan of Campaign - Until the Landlord Gives In'. Colour print in red, yellow, black and blue on newsprint which depicts 'Mrs. Campaign', 'Master Rackrenter' and 'Patsey with Fruits of His Labour - Potatoes and Home Rule...
letter / The State of Ireland / Boycott
Photocopy of a letter from Captain Charles Boycott to the Editor of The Times, on The State of Ireland. From Lough Mask House, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, 14 October, circa 1880.
political cartoon / Relieving the Rates, 1883
Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 7 July 1883. Titled 'Relieving the Rates'. Depicting Columbia (America) as a female figure, and John Bull.
political cartoon / Forewarned, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 10 November 1883. Titled 'Forewarned'. Depicting a female representing the Freeman's Journal, warning a man of of the Emigration Commission.
print / Ejectment of Irish Tenantry, 1880s
Print of an illustration, probably from the Weekly Freeman, depicting an eviction scene, Ireland c.1880s. Titled Ejectment of Irish Tenantry.
political cartoon / The Hollow Square, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 25 August 1888. Titled 'The Hollow Square'. Depicting Balfour and Londonderry giving a speech to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Regarding evictions; an insert shows an engagement with the Widow Maloney, as she throws a bucket of tar and coloured...
political cartoon / Balfour's Plan of Campaign, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 29 September 1888. Titled 'Balfour's Plan of Campaign'. Depicting Balfour and a landlord on a rocking horse, reviewing a line comprised of battering rams and notices to quit, beyond which are flags bearing the words 'starvation' and 'death', with a...
book / The Agrarian Struggle in Gweedore
Pamphlet or booklet, The Agrarian Struggle in Gweedore, by Reverend James McFadden, P.P., 1889. Printed on sheet.
political cartoon / The Tipperary Grip, 1890
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 1 February 1890. Titled 'The Tipperary Grip, or Smith Cro-Barry and the Bar'. Figure of a man - Smith 'Cro-Barry' in the grip of a bear wearing a sash reading 'Tipperary'. At his feet lies a cro-bar and writs, orders and summons pertaining to...
poster / No Rent
Printed poster, for the "No Rent" Campaign of the Land League. With leaders' signatures (printed)
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.
political cartoon / Come back to Erin, 1886
Political cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, titled 'Come back to Erin', 7 August 1886. Depicting a couple emigrating from Ireland, saying farewell to the female figure of Erin. HH:1940.44.1-41. Collection of pictures etc. taken of Irish History 1798 - 1905. HH:1940.44.1 - Picture from the Weekly...
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.
political cartoon / The Siamese Twins, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 3 December 1887. Titled 'The Siamese Twins'. Or the Real Union of Liberal Unionists. This miserable exhibitions took place on tuesday last in the Leinster Hall, Dublin, for the edification of a mob of dilapidated Tory landlords, who howled...
political cartoon / Design for an Irish Jubilee Memorial, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 29 January 1887. Titled 'Design for an Irish Jubilee Memorial'. Colour print in green, red, brown and black showing a 'Jubilee memorial'. A three-headed beast, the central head being a skull with the collar 'famine', those on either side being a...
political cartoon / The Rivals, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 2 June 1888. Titled 'The Rivals'. Depicting Balfour, holding a bouquet of flowers named 'coercion', rejected by the female Southampton, who is in the arms of the male 'National League'. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE...
political cartoon / The Most Noble, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 17 December 1887. Titled 'The Most Noble'. Depicting the Marquis of Clanricarde (titled the Marquis of Clanrackrent) with his Counsel in the courtroom - 'Gentlemen of the Jury, I put it to you, is my client as black as he is painted? Jury -...
political cartoon / Welcome and Defiance, 1890
Political cartoon, from the newspaper United Ireland, 31 May 1890. Titled 'Welcome and Defiance'. She's a smile for those that love her, and a frown for those that hate her. A female figure representing Tipperary in centre, standing on a proclamation. By J.D. Reigh. HH:1944.224.1-10. Ten printed...