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.
political cartoon / The Devils Work, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 3 March 1888. Titled 'The Devils Work'. Depicting the Devil looking out from the doorway of a broken down Irish house, at the evicted family. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in book form - THE WEEKLY FREEMAN CARTOONS, FORMING THE...
political cartoon / The Tory Idea of Conciliation, 1887
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 10 December 1887. Titled 'The Tory Idea of Conciliation'. Depicting the door of an Irish home being broken in with a battering ram by Royal Irish Constabulary, Emergency men and the Fire service. With verse. Collection of cartoons printed in...
political cartoon / Evicting to Death, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 20 October 1888. Titled 'Evicting to Death'. On Thursday October 11th a poor old man, 80 years of age, named James Dunne, was flung out on the side of the road by Balfour's gang of Emergency Men, although he informed them prophetically that he had...
cartoon / Ireland As It Is, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to 'United Ireland' newspaper, 2 October 1886. Titled 'Ireland As It Is', Septeptember 1886. Series of three illustrations, 'Scenes in Kerry' by Claud Byrne, 'The Ward of Honour, New Ross Workhouse' by J.D. Reigh, and 'Eviction Scenes in Galway' by W. Theadore Parkes.
political cartoon / What the British Army and Navy Have Come To, 1890
Political cartoon, supplement to United Ireland, 16 August 1890. Titled 'What the British Army and Navy Have Come To'. Referencing the use of British Military in evictions from estates, Lord Clanricarde's estate specifically mentioned. Arthur Balfour depicted. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / How Long O Lord?, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 18 February 1888. Titled 'How Long O Lord?'. Depicting a male, 80 years of age, named Bartley Geary, residing at Kilkerrin, Connemara, was evicted from his dwelling house under the new Land Act on Thursday last by order of the magistrates. He...
political cartoon / Freedom of Contract in Ireland, 1882
Political Cartoon, from the Weekly Freeman, 25 February 1882. Titled 'Freedom of Contract in Ireland'. Depicting landlords forcing a tenant to sign a lease, with increase in rent, and threatened with eviction. One of a set of fourteen Irish political cartoons, December 1881, February, June,...resource / Land League action, 1888
One page of The Guardian newspaper, 4 July, 1888. Letters page, including a letter to the Editor from Henry Stuart Fagan of Great Cressington Rectory, Norfolk, re the reductions to the rent of the land of a Mrs Morony, landowner, and discussing the high rents, evictions and the boycotting of her...
political cartoon / Helping the Famine at Falcarragh, 1890
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 27 September 1890. Titled 'Helping the Famine at Falcarragh'. Black and white print depicting 'Police and Emergency men cutting and carting away the unripe crop of oats sown by an Olphert Tenant previous to his eviction'. Onlookers watch in the...
political cartoon / Lord Salisbury's Remedy for Ireland, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 21 August 1886. Titled 'Lord Salisbury's Remedy for Ireland'. Depicting a bailiff breaking down the house of an evicted family, the Royal Irish Constabulary visible in the background. By J.D. Reigh.
illustration / The Two Policies for Ireland, 1886
Political Cartoon, supplement to 'United Ireland', 27 February 1886. Titled 'The Two Policies for Ireland'
scrapbook / Commissioner John J. Jones, Dublin Metropolitan Police
Album of souvenirs relating to Queen Victoria’s visit to Dublin in 1900. letters, menu card, portraits, etc. Also a photograph of the R.I.C encampment at Wexford during the Coolgreany Evictions 1887. Part of a collection of items belonging to Commissioner John J. Jones, who began his career in the...resource / RIC and Evictions
Royal Irish Constabulary and Evictions. Note from a centenarian's memories, Kerryman, 13.7.1979.
political cartoon / Back! Away With Them, 1888
Political Cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 1 September 1888. Titled 'Back! Away With Them, or the Last Eviction in Ireland'. Depicting a group of Irish men using a battering ram titled 'General Election' to enter Dublin Castle. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / Remember Michelstown, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 25 February 1888. Titled 'Remember Michelstown'. Depicting George Goschen, who has been asking'in what has it' 'Remember Mitchelstown' been fruitful?' is suddenly attracted by strange writing on the wall, written in a familiar hand. With the...
political cartoon / From the Fryingpan into the Fire, 1886
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 27 November 1886. Titled 'From the Fryingpan into the Fire - The Landlords' Fix'. Referencing the Plan of Campaign and Parnell's Bill. By J.D. Reigh.
political cartoon / The Hollow Square, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 25 August 1888. Titled 'The Hollow Square'. Depicting Balfour and Londonderry giving a speech to the Royal Irish Constabulary. Regarding evictions; an insert shows an engagement with the Widow Maloney, as she throws a bucket of tar and coloured...
political cartoon / Balfour's Plan of Campaign, 1888
Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 29 September 1888. Titled 'Balfour's Plan of Campaign'. Depicting Balfour and a landlord on a rocking horse, reviewing a line comprised of battering rams and notices to quit, beyond which are flags bearing the words 'starvation' and 'death', with a...
political cartoon / The Tipperary Grip, 1890
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 1 February 1890. Titled 'The Tipperary Grip, or Smith Cro-Barry and the Bar'. Figure of a man - Smith 'Cro-Barry' in the grip of a bear wearing a sash reading 'Tipperary'. At his feet lies a cro-bar and writs, orders and summons pertaining to...