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breast plate / North Cork Militia, c. 1795
Breast plate: brass, oval, engraved. In centre GR with crown above. Above NORTH and below CORK. North Cork Militia, circa 1795.
medal / Royal Cork Volunteers, 1797
Royal Cork Volunteers (Yeomanry) medal 1797, silver. Obverse: Irish harp under RCV, and over 1782. On ribbon below: OLIVER BOYD BEST SHOT 1797. All within an inscribed line, and a slightly raised border. Reverse: a crown over 1690 with KING AND CONSTITUTION on a ribbon around above. All within...
photograph / Michael Collins, 14 August 1922
Snapshot of Michael Collins in the uniform of the Irish Free State Army. Profile; standing beside him another man in uniform; said by Louis Switt to have been taken on 14 August 1922. A crowd and buildings visible in the background.resource / Justin McCarthy, MP
Justin McCarthy MP. Article re ex Cork Evening Echo, 20.8.1980.
photograph / Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway Station, c.1900
Railway Photograph c. 1900. Mounted snapshot showing 5 men at the notice for the Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway Station.resource / O'Connor Brothers, 1798
The O'Connor Brothers of '98. Article re ex Cork Holly Bough, Christmas 1980.resource / Peter O'Neill Crowley, 1867
Peter O'Neill Crowley and 1867. Article re ex Cork Evening Echo, 31.1.1981.
photograph / David R. Kent, 1916
Photograph of David R. Kent, brother of Thomas Kent, being escorted by three British Army soldiers, either in Cork or Dublin. David Kent was sentenced to death, but commuted to 5 years penal servitude in Dartmoor Prison.
photograph / Irish Volunteer Officers, Cork, November 1915
Photograph. Group of Irish Volunteer Officers taken at the 1915 parade in Cork on the 47th anniversary of the execution of the Manchester Martyrs, November, 1915, on the occasion when Seán Mac Diarmada delivered the oration. Seated in front: Seán Murphy, Tomas MacCurtain, Seán MacDermott, Herbert...
photograph / Michael Collins, 14 August 1922
Snapshot of Michael Collins in the uniform of the Irish Free State Army. Profile; taken in street of a town; other men in uniform shown and an armoured car said by Louis Switt to have been named 'Ballinalee'. Said to have been taken on the 14 August 1922.
photograph / Dublin guards under fire, Cork, 1922
Photograph of Dublin guards under fire in Cork in 1922. Showing two soldiers on the roadway shooting towards the house on a hill.
photograph / Irish Free State Army, Cork, 1922
Photograph of car commandeered by the Irish Free State Army in Co. Cork in 1922. Taken by the local doctor, it shows three men in uniform in the car.
political cartoon / Thou Will Vindicate His Memory, 1891
Political cartoon, from the newspaper United Ireland, 7 November 1891. Titled 'Thou Will Vindicate His Memory'. Rebel Cork as a female figure, with the ghost of Charles Stewart Parnell. HH:1944.224.1-10. Ten printed cartoons from the paper United Ireland 1890-1892. 4) Thou Will Vindicate His...
photograph / Burned barracks, Co. Cork, 1920-1921
View of a burnt house, written on back, 'Somewhere in Co. Cork, 1920'. Possibly a burnt police barracks. Photograph, 4 by 3 inches taken by Prof. von Sydow of Stockholm in 1920 or 1921.