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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 / Ruins of the Hosiery Factory, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, 1920
Photograph. Ruins of the hosiery factory at Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. It was burned by Constabulary during the sack of the town. September 20th-21st 1920.
photograph / Sack of Granard, November 1920
Photograph of damaged buildings. The Sack of Granard, Co. Longford. 4 November 1920.
photograph / Ruins of Athlone Printing Works, 1920
Photograph of the ruins of Athlone Printing Works, 1920 destroyed by Constabulary 3 November 1920. It was one of the largest printing works in Ireland.
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 / 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 / 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.
photograph / Cork City Hall, December 1921
Photograph of the interior of Cork City Hall, showing the Organ Gallery, after the burning, 11 December 1921. Photograph 7.625 BY 5.75 inches.
photograph / Carnegie Library, Cork, 1920
Photograph of the Carnegie Library, Cork, taken after it was gutted by fire in the burning of Cork in December 1920.