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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.


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photograph / City of Dublin Whiskey Co., 1922

City of Dublin Whiskey Co. (Adam Scott & Co.), photograph of ruins in Dublin after the Irish Civil War. 1922

 

photograph / P.J. Keogh, 1922

Sandbag barricade at the shop of P.J. Keogh. A Dublin street barricade manned by what are probably Irish Free State Army solders. Taken in Dublin during the Civil War. In the background a group of children are gathered to watch.

 

manuscript / Limerick, 1737

Tax roll - Co. Limerick, A.D.1737. Fragment of document found in the Four Courts after 1916. More likely after the destruction of the Four Courts in 1922. No further details provided at time of acquisition.

 

photograph / Rotunda, 1922

(Cashman 251) Civil War. Photograph of the ruins of the Dublin sorting office at the Rotunda, burned down on 5 November 1922.

 

photograph / O'Connell Street, 1922

(Cashman 96) Civil War . Photograph of view of O'Connell Street when Gresham and Hammam hotels were under fire. 1922.

 

photograph / Four Courts, 1922

(Cashman 93) Civil War, Photograph of the blowing up of the Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin, 30 June 1922.

 

photograph / Four Courts, 1922

(Cashman 94) Civil War. Photograph of Four Courts, 1922, showing breach made in front wall by Free State artillery, from south quays.

 

photograph / Four Courts, 1922

Four Courts. Photograph of ruins in Dublin after the Civil War, depicting the Four Courts, with a large hole through the facade to the right of the portico, and the dome absent.

 

photograph / Four Courts 1922

(Cashman 95) Civil War. Photograph of another view of Four Courts 1922, from immediately below the walls.

 

watercolour / Four Courts in Flames, 1922

Four Courts in Flames, 1922. Watercolour by D.L. Hemingway - then a student at Trinity College Dublin. On paper. 7" by 5"