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.
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Photograph of a lying-in-state. Unidentified, possibly that of Terence Mac Swiney.
photograph / Loughane Brothers, 1920
Loughane Brothers. Photograph of one in coffin as found, having been murdered by the Black and Tans, 26 November 1920, and buried in a bog in Co. Galway. 6.5" x 4.9 ins.
memoriam card / Sean Treacy, 1920
Memoriam Card for Sean Treacy. Printed with snapshot of Treacy attached.
photograph / Terence MacSwiney, 1920
Postcard photograph, commemorative, for Alderman Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, killed 1920.
postcard photograph / Martin Savage
Commemorative postcard with photograph of Lieutenant Martin Savage of the Dublin Brigade. Savage fought at the Four Courts in 1916, and was killed in action in December 1919 during an ambush at Ashtown, Co. Meath. Within a trophy of tricolours cap and bayonet over a harp and a wolfhound and a...
death certificate / Patrick Hickey, 1921
Copy of death certificate of Patrick Hickey, aged 21. The cause of death is given as 'Shock and collapse following bullet wound inflicted by sentry in execution of his duty'. Date of death listed as 30 August 1922, at Portlaois Prison. Certificate dated 1922.
card / SeánTreacy, 1920
Memorial card for Seán Treacy, shot in Dublin 14 October 1920. In Irish.
card / Christy Reynolds, 1921
Memorial card for Christy Reynolds, Rathfarnham, who died for Ireland 2 April 1921 aged 24 years. With photograph.
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Photographic negative, head and shoulders portrait of male, unidentified.
studio photograph / Michael O'Callaghan
Photograph of Michael O'Callaghan, Mayor Of Limerick from January 1920 to January 1921. Murdered by British Auxiliary forces, Black and Tans, 7 March 1921. Studio photograph, Head and shoulders, taken by Richardson of Limerick.
postcard photograph / Tomas MacCurtain
Photograph of Tomás Mac Curtain. Photograph and legend printed on card by DAOL in Cork.
photograph / Jeremiah O'Mullane, Cork No. 1 Brigade, 1921
Photograph of Jeremiah O'Mullane, one of the six men men, members of 'C' Company, First Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade, killed by a party of Black and Tans and R.I.C. at Ballycannon, Clogheen, 5 miles from Cork City, in March 1921. Their funeral service was in Cork Cathedral, where their bodies were...
proclamation / Proclamation No. 1, 20 December 1921
1921 proclamation, issued by Brigadier General H.R. Cumming, Commanding Kerry Infantry Brigade, who was subsequently killed in an engagement with the I.R.A. forces at Clonbannin County Cork, March 5, 1921.
photograph / Loughnane Brothers, Galway, 1920
Two photographs: the burned bodies of the Loughnane Brothers; Patrick and Harry, killed by British forces (thought to be by the Black and Tans) at Gort, South Galway, November 1920. Shown in their coffins, with the lids removed, held upright for the photograph by a group of men of the locality.
photograph / Funeral, Cork, March 1921
Photograph taken of the funeral of the six men, members of 'C' Company, First Battalion, Cork No. 1 Brigade, killed by a party of Black and Tans and R.I.C. at Ballycannon, Clogheen, Co. Cork, in March 1921 (also known as the Kerry Pike Shootings). Dated 27 March 1921. Shows attendants kneeling in...
photograph / Sean Treacy funeral, 1920
Sean Treacy funeral, photograph of. October 1920. Showing coffin with flag around it being carried on the shoulders of six men (three visible) in cemetary. 6.6" by 4.8".
photograph / Tadhg Barry, 1921
Postcard photograph, Tadhg Barry of Cork, trade union leader, who died at Ballykinlar Internment Camp in November 1921.
photograph / Terence MacSwiney Funeral, 1920
Photograph of Limerick Corporation at the funeral of Terence Mac Swiney, Lord Mayor of Cork October 31, 1920. Micheal O'Callaghan, Mayor of Limerick is seen with Alderman George Clancy on his right and Father Philip O.F.M., Mayor's Chaplain on his left.
photograph / Terence MacSwiney funeral, 1920
Photograph, Séan MacSwiney (left) and Peter MacSwiney (right) bearing, with others, the coffin of their brother Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork. Shown leaving Southwark Cathedral, London following the services which were attended by thousands, while other thousands, unable to get in, crowded...