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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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relic / Manchester Martyrs, Michael Larkin, 1867

Manchester Martyrs Relic. A lock of the hair of Michael Larkin. Enclosed in a frame, glazed, with his name underneath, and 'God Save Ireland' above.
 

relic / Manchester Martyrs, William Philip Allen, 1867

Manchester Martyrs Relic. A lock of the hair of William Philip Allen. Enclosed in a frame, glazed, with his name underneath, and 'God Save Ireland' above.
 

relic / Manchester Martyrs, Michael O'Brien, 1867

Manchester Martyrs Relic. A lock of the hair of Michael O'Brien. Enclosed in a frame, glazed, with his name underneath, and 'God Save Ireland' above.
 

death cloth / Manchester Martyr, William Philip Allen, 1867

Manchester Martyr, Allen. Piece of black silk cloth said to be the face cloth used to cover the face of William Phillip Allen. Allen, Larkin and O'Brien were executed in Manchester, England on 23rd November 1867. The Donor states that the face cloth was preserved in the Greely family (relatives...

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