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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.


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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.