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.
photograph / Sean Etchingham's House, 1920
Photograph of Sean Etchingham's house destroyed by the Black and Tans in 1920. Showing the rear of the bombed building.
photograph / Sean Etchingham's House, 1920
Photograph of Sean Etchingham's house, destroyed by Black and Tans in 1920. Showing the front view of the bombed building. Right hand corner of photograph missing.
photograph / St Enda's School, 1921
Photograph of Cullenswood House, St Enda's School, March 1921. Shows British soldiers at work on its destruction as an official reprisal. 7.625 inches by 5.875 inches.
photograph / Meelin, Co. Cork, January 1921
Photograph taken at Meelin, Co. Cork, 14 January 1921. Shows a broken down cottage, destroyed in an official reprisal, and an armed soldier. 7.625 by 5.75 inches.
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(Cashman 127) War of Independence. Photograph of crowds examining the bullet marks on the walls of the Orange Order's Fowler Hall, Cavendish Row, off Parnell Square, after being attacked in 1921.
photograph / Sack of Balbriggan, 1920
(Cashman 173) War of Independence. Photograph. The Sack of Balbriggan, 21 September 1920. Photograph shows the ruins of one of the chief shops in the main street the day after.
photograph / Sack of Balbriggan, 1920
(Cashman 174) War of Independence. Photograph. View shows the ruins of a row of houses in Clonard Street, Balbriggan after the Sack of Balbriggan, 1920.
photograph / Sack of Balbriggan, 1920
(Cashman 175) War of Independence. Photograph. Sack of Balbriggan, 1920. Having saved a little of their household goods, this poor family, seen mounted on a cart are about to leave the scene of their former home, which lies in smouldering ruins in the background.
photograph / Sack of Balbriggan, 1920
(Cashman 176) War of Independence, Sack of Balbriggan, 1920. Photograph. Women pushing pram loads of clothing, retrieved from their doomed houses, to take up their abode with relatives or friends elsewhere.
photograph / Mrs. Brown's Farm, Meelin, Co. Cork, 1921
Photograph taken at Meelin, Co. Cork, circa January 1921. Shows the scene of an ambush - the farm belonging to Mrs. Brown after an official reprisal. Photographer's note states this to be the first photograph taken at the moment of an official reprisal. Some of the furniture was brought out of the...
photograph / Meelin, Co. Cork, 1921
Photograph taken at Meelin, Co. Cork, 1921. Shows the men of the village held and guarded by British soldiers, while other soldiers were blowing up a nearby farm belonging to Mrs. Brown. Photograph 7 5/8 inches by 5 7/8 inches.
photograph / Sack of Trim, September 1920
(Cashman 137) The Sack of Trim., Co. Meath. 27 September 1920. Photograph shows houses destroyed by the Black and Tans as a reprisal for the burning of the local Police Barracks.
photograph / Sack of Trim, 1920
(Cashman 138) The Sack of Trim. Photograph of residents of Trim, Co. Meath, removing some of their damaged furniture after the Black-and-Tan raid, 1920. A quantity of bullets, concealed in the back of the overmantel (which escaped the attention of the raiders) crashed to the ground but were...
photograph / Cullenswood House, 1921
(Cashman 239) Black and Tans. Photograph of Cullenswood House, home of Mrs. Margaret Pearse, the mother of Patrick pearse, destroyed by the Black and Tan Auxiliary forces, March 1921.
photograph / Mallow, January 1921
Photograph of a street in Mallow, dated 9 January 1921. Photograph shows three shop buildings destroyed by fire set by Black and Tan troops as a reprisal for the taking of Mallow Barracks on 28 September previously, and the tin huts erected in their place, where business was carried on. 7.75...
photograph / Siege of Tralee, November 1920
Photograph of ruined printing works belonging to Mr Quinnell of Tralee, Co. Kerry, destroyed during the siege of Tralee, November 1920.
verey light signal pistol / Knockanure, 1921
A Webley & Scott Verey pistol found after the battle of Knochanure, Kerry, given to Éamonn Ó Mathúna, brother of Pádraig, when a pharmacist in Tralee in the 1950s. Brass with wooden fittings. Iron trigger.
photograph / Thomas Mac Curtain Funeral, 1920
(Cashman 75) Thomas Mac Curtain Funeral. Photograph of group outside Cork Cathedral. March 1920.
photograph / Templemore, October 1920
Photograph taken at Templemore, dated 29 October 1920. Shows a young boy nailing boards across a broken window damaged in a reprisal by British troops for an ambush in the locality in which soldiers were shot. 4.5 inches by 6.25 inches.