Historical Collections Online

 

box / Royal Arch Purple Chapter of Ireland / Orange Order, 1914

Badge of Royal Arch Purple Chapter of Ireland. Orange Order. In form of a shield .8 x .7 ins. Blue enamel with arch enclosing 2.5 under an eye with a ladder at right and a star (5 pointed) on left. Set in a black woolen golliwog 3.5 x 1.2 ins. and enclosed in a tin box 3.5" x 2" on cover of which...

 

dictionary / Walker's Dictionary, 1846 / Doherty Family

Copy of John Walker’s Dictionary. Published by Simms and McIntyre, Aldine Chambers, Patternoster Row, London, and Donegal Street, Belfast. 1846. Inscriptions inside state that this was the property of the O’Doherty Family of 5 Dervock Place, Waterside, Derry. Purchased by James Doherty of Bishop...

 

political cartoon / The Vacant Chair, 1883

Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 29 December 1883. Titled 'The Vacant Chair', or the aspect of the Viceregal Commission Court, enquiring into the facts connected with the recent Shooting of Nationalists by Orangemen in Derry.