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article / Ambush, RIC, May 1921
Copy of newspaper reports/pictures relating to killing of Captain Blake, DI, Gort, his wife / ladyfriend and two RIC officers on May 15th 1921. Part of a collection of artefacts relating to Michael John Carney, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, later of the Royal Irish Regiment during...article / Ambush, RIC, May 1921
Copy, handwritten, extract from Twilight of the Ascendency by Mark Bench, September 1921, re the death of Captain Blake, DI, Gort, his wife / ladyfriend and two RIC officers on May 15th 1921. Part of a collection of artefacts relating to Michael John Carney, a member of the Royal Irish...
ammunition / Roscommon, ambush
Bullet captured in ambush of Black and Tans in Co. Roscommon, 3.1 ins. long. Marked DA 19/11/V.I. Captured by Mr. D. Madden, Ballagh, Kilrooskey, Co. Roscommon.
book / Irish Volunteers, Dublin Brigade, 1917-21
Irish Volunteers 1917-21 Dublin Brigade Roll. Quartermaster's Roll Book of D. Comapny, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers, 1917-1921. Black covered note book. The front part of the book ruled for rolls of members of company, by sections. Entries give name, address, occupation etc.,...
photograph / Sean MacEoin, Mullingar
Photograph of General Sean MacEoin, pointing out the doors or gateways in Mullingar into which he unsuccessfully tried to escape when captured in 1921. Handwritten along bottom of photograph. Full plate print.
photograph / Clonfin Ambush, Longford, 1921
Two photographs, showing the scene of the Clonfin Ambush, 2 February 1921,in which four member of the Auxiliaries were killed and eight wounded in a bomb attack on a army truch by the North Longford Flying Column.
rifle / Rush Barrack Ambush, 1920
Lee Enfield Rifle, one of many captured by the I.R.A. at Collinstown Aerodrome, 1920. Short mark III* 1917, marked crown over GR, Enfield 1917, Sht. 4. E. III*, weapon number D 8963, bolt marked L 2984, circular plate on butt marked I.L.F./P.W./780. Scratched on bronze plate which is screwed to...