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 / 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,...
political cartoon / The Road to Ruin, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 21 January 1888. Titled 'The Road to Ruin'. Depicting the 1881 Land Act as a toban, sliding down the slope of rent reduction towards bankruptcy. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING...
political cartoon / Shylock and the 'Plan', 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 12 May 1888. Titled 'Shylock and the 'Plan''. Shylock (a Lord) demanding his due from Portia (Plan of Campaign). With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF IRELAND FOR THE...resource / Siege of Schull, 1881
Siege of Schull, 1881. Article re ex Southern Star, 20.12.1980.
political cartoon / Looking at his Work, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 21 July 1888. Titled 'Looking at his Work'. Depicts Balfour looking into the coffin of John Mandeville, died July 1st of Savage Coercion. Suggested by a picture by Paul de la Roche of Cromwell gazing at the dead king. Regarding the death of John...
political cartoon / Giving the Evictors a Free Hand, 1890
Political cartoon, from the newspaper United Ireland, 24 May 1890. Titled 'Giving the Evictors a Free Hand'. Clanricarde to Balfour: 'What the deuce do you mean by appearing in such ridiculous costume? Is it to disturb me in 'the exercise of my legal rights'?' By J. D. Reigh. HH:1944.224.1-10....
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.
photograph / W. J. Sanders’s home, Woodford
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled W. J. Sanders’s home, Woodford. With Constabulary.resource / New Tipperary
'New Tipperary'. Article re building of during Plan of Campaign ex Tipperary Star, 7 October, 1978.
political cartoon / Taking the Landlords at Their Word, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 3 April 1886. Titled 'Taking the Landlords at Their Word'. Depicting a belligerent Landlord Deputation confronting William Gladstone over the Land Purchase Scheme and Home Rule. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / St. Patrick's Day, 1882
Political Cartoon, supplement to the Weekly Freeman, 18 March 1882. Titled 'St. Patrick's Day, 1882' - On his anniversary St. Patrick re-visits his well-beloved island, and finds that he has to do his work all over again.resource / Bodyke Evictions
Bodyke Evictions. Co. Clare, 1887. Article re ex Clare Champion, 15.9.1978.