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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.
handbill / Heads Up!, 6 March 1922
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Heads Up!’ no. 30. 6 March 1922. ‘A Party Manouvre’. Re upcoming election and voting rights. Anti-Treaty leaflet.
handbill / Men in Green! Cathal Brugha is Dead. Do You Stand for That?, 1922
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Men in Green! Cathal Brugha is Dead. Do You Stand for That? How do you like Shooting, Raiding, and Arresting the Soldiers of the I.R.A. at the bidding of Macready and Winston Churchill?’. Anti-Treaty leaflet.
propaganda sheet / Destruction of Four Courts
Handbill issued by the Free State (Provisional Government) on the destruction of the Four Courts, 30 June 1922.
photograph / 'Mutineer', Four Courts, 1922
Photograph of the I.R.A.'s armoured car 'Mutineer' at the Four Courts. A Rolls Royce armoured car with a group of men in civilian clothes. Probably taken before the battle at the Four Courts, 1922.
souvenir / Four Courts, 1922
Four Courts, 1922. A hand grenade case (empty), with screw cap. Cast iron, ovoid, slotted case, c.4" by 2.5" (mould did not quite fit and join noticable). Cap a cylinder of metal, probably lead, with strip projecting at side and held in place at top of cap by a split pin. Brass ring at end of...
handbill / Heads Up!, 21 Feb. 1922
Leaflet or handbill, ‘Heads Up!’ no. 24. 21 February 1922. ‘The Irish Republic’. Anti-Treaty leaflet.
document / Oglaigh na hEireann
Document, typed. Oglaigh na hEireann instruction sheet or manual No. 4, on the handling of chemicals and explosives. On the back is hand written that this was found on the West Road, North Strand area of Dublin, on 30th July 1922 after the explosion at the Four Courts.
photograph / Four Courts, 1922
(Cashman 94) Civil War. Photograph of Four Courts, 1922, showing breach made in front wall by Free State artillery, from south quays.
photograph / Four Courts, 1922
(Cashman 100) Civil War. Photograph of Free State soldier seen behind a barricade at a corner in Mary's Lane, with their rifles pointing towards the Four Courts, during the Civil War, 1922.
photograph / Four Courts, 1922
Four Courts. Photograph of ruins in Dublin after the Civil War, depicting the Four Courts, with a large hole through the facade to the right of the portico, and the dome absent.
souvenir / Liam Mellows, 1922
Leather pouch which belonged to Liam Mellows. Brown leather pouch with flap from which extend two straps fastening by studs to front of pouch and with three straps and three brass buckles behind. A small pocket with one strap within. Incised with shallow lines on back of pouch: 'Liam Ó Maol Iosa....
photograph / Four Courts 1922
(Cashman 95) Civil War. Photograph of another view of Four Courts 1922, from immediately below the walls.
photograph / Four Courts, 1922
(Cashman 98) Civil War. Photograph of Free State soldier arranging shells for 18-pounder gun during attack on Four Courts, 1922.
watercolour / Four Courts in Flames, 1922
Four Courts in Flames, 1922. Watercolour by D.L. Hemingway - then a student at Trinity College Dublin. On paper. 7" by 5"
relic / Edward Daly, 1916 Rising
Commandant Edward Daly's Irish Volunteer tunic button, given by him to a nun in the North Dublin Union. The nun had it inscribed and later presented it to his sister, Madge Daly. Brass coloured Irish Volunteer button, one inch in diameter with a harp in the centre but no I or V letters on either...