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.
buckshot mould / Irish Volunteers, 1918
Buckshot or slug mould, made in 1918 and used by Irish Volunteers. Iron, consisting of two shafts, each 17" long, attached by iron pin forming a hinge. For half the length of each the portion towards the hinge is oblong in section. Remaining portion of each of circular section and forming handle....
photograph / Funeral, Cork, March 1921
Photograph of funeral procession 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. The photograph shows armoured car and lorries outside the Cathedral, Cork. The men killed...
article / Burning of Train no. 3, Cork, 1920
Burning of Train no. 3 in burning of Cork, December 1920. Article by Walter McGrath from Trainway Review(?), including reference to the rebuilt train as the only one ever built in Cork.
commemorative postcard / Terence MacSwiney
Printed commemorative postcard with photograph of Terence MacSwiney. Underneath photograph is printed: 'Terence MacSwiney. R.I.P. / Lord Mayor of Cork'.
newspaper article / Daily Sketch / Terence MacSwiney, 1920
Newspaper cutting from the Daily Sketch. Regarding Terence MacSwiney funeral. 29th October 1920.
newspaper article / New York Times / Terence MacSwiney, 1920
Newspaper cutting from The New York Times. Regarding Terence MacSwiney funeral. 14th November 1920.
tunic / Alice Cashel, Cumann na mBan, 1916-1921
Uniform jacket or tunic, Cumann na mBan, 1916 period. As worn by the donor Miss Alice Cashel. Alice Cashel was a member of the Cork Branch of Sinn Fein and a founding member, with Annie McSwiney, of the Cork Cumann na mBan, before the Irish Volunteers were established there.
photograph / Thomas Mac Curtain Funeral, 1920
(Cashman 75) Thomas Mac Curtain Funeral. Photograph of group outside Cork Cathedral. March 1920.
photograph / Terence MacSwiney, funeral, 1920
(Cashman 80) Terence MacSwiney. Photograph of clergy, including Father Albert, at the funeral of Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, Cork City, 1920.