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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.
resource / Four Courts, Dublin
Four Courts Dublin. Illustrated article re ex Project, 22.1.1981.
pistol / Ned Daly, 1916 Rising
Ned Daly's Mauser pistol, serial number 87601, complete with wooden stock. As used by him at the Four Courts during the 1916 Rising.handbill / Stop Press, June 1922
Newsheet, Stop Press, War News 1922. Partial copy. Four Courts Reports from 29th June, 'Where the Free State guns and armoured cars come from, To the Free State Soldiers etc.handbill / Stop Press, 1922
Newsheet, Stop Press, War News 1922. Partial copy. British Troops Co-operate in the War, Beware of Black and Tans and British Soldiers dressed in Free State Uniform.handbill / Stop Press, No. 7, June 1922
Newsheet, Stop Press, War News 1922. No. 7 (June). Partial copy. The Mandate? De Valera's Statement, Mountjoy Prison etc.handbill / Stop Press, July 1922
Newsheet, Stop Press, War News 1922. July. Partial copy. The Battle of the Four Courts. Army News: Official Communiques 1. The 1st Southern on the Offensive. 2. The Loss of the Four Courts. 3. Escape of Six Prisoners. etchandbill / Stop Press, June 1922
Newsheet, Stop Press, War News 1922. June. Partial copy. War News from the Four Courts at Noon Friday 30th June. Army Executive - Official 10am June 30, The fight Goes On. etchandbill / Stop Press, 1922
Newsheet, Stop Press, War News 1922. Partial copy. three casualities so far, all slight. Father Albert and Father Dominic with us here. Our love to all comrades outside, and the brave boys especially of the Dublin Brigade. Signed by Rory O’Connor, Major General, I.R.A.
yard stick / Four Courts, 1916
Four Courts, a black wooden office ruler. Cylindrical found after the 1916 Rebellion. Marks on one end presumably made when ruler used for breaking glass in windows to prepare for rifle fire.
photograph / Four Courts, 1919-21
(Cashman 238) War of Independence. Photograph. British soldiers, fully armed on the roof of the Four Courts, doing guard duty.
handbill / Appeal to the People and Volunteers of Tirconaill, June 1922
Typescript leaflet, Oglaigh na hEireann 'Appeal to the People and Volunteers of Tirconaill', from General Headquarters, Four Courts, Dublin, 29 June 1922. Signed Peadar O'Donnell.
pass / Four Courts Barracks, May 1922
Pass, Oglaigh na hEireann General Headquarters at the Four Courts Barracks, for P. Ryan, Orderly, Publicity Unit, to leave barracks. Dated 4 May 1922. Permanent pass no. 87. Signed Captain Sean Lemass.
handbill / Heads Up!, 3 Feb. 1922
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Heads Up!’ no. 9. 3 February 1922. ‘The Freedom of the Press’. Re Freeman’s Journal. Anti-Treaty leaflet.
handbill / Heads Up!, 13 Feb. 1922
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Heads Up!’ no. 17. 13 February 1922. ’50,000 Citizens of Dublin Passed this Resolution and Pledged Themselves to the Republic’. Anti-Treaty leaflet.
handbill / Heads Up!, 22 Feb. 1922
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Heads Up!’ no. 25. 22 February 1922. ‘An Isolated Dominion’. Anti-Treaty leaflet.
drawing / Four Courts, Dublin
Water-colour Drawing; Hall and Dome of Four Courts, Dublin. Facade View. Designed and drawn by James Gandon, architect, born 1742, died 1823. Also contains a small plan of The House of Commons on Foster Place. Lent to the International Exhibition in Ballsbridge, 3rd May 1907.
drawing / Four Courts, Dublin
Water-colour drawing; Hall and Dome of the Four Courts, Dublin. Sectional View. Designed and drawn by James Gandon, architect, born 1742, died 1823. Lent to the International Exhibition in Ballsbridge, 3rd May 1907.
shell fragment / Four Courts, 1922
Piece of a shell picked up at the Four Courts during or after the bombardment, 1922. Irregular fragment of brass, c.2.5" * 2.25" * 1.25". Obtained by R. Stewart from the Vincent Burke mentioned in EW.1208.
manuscript / Limerick, 1737
Tax roll - Co. Limerick, A.D.1737. Fragment of document found in the Four Courts after 1916. More likely after the destruction of the Four Courts in 1922. No further details provided at time of acquisition.