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.
 
supplement / Ruthless Landlordism and its Results
Supplements with the Weekly Freeman and National Press, 28 August 1894. Illustration in four parts depicting homes subjected to evictions; House of Widow Gallagher, Glasserchoo, Evicted November 1890. Home of Paddy O'Brien, Glasserchoo, Evicted. Ten people lived in this house without a window,...
 
photograph / Eviction scene, 1880s
Photograph of an eviction scene. In the 1880s showing the breaching of a wall of a thatched cottage by a battering ram which suspended from a tripod is partly in the house. From a lantern slide originally belonging to Maud Gonne.
 
photograph / Eviction scene, 1880s
Photograph of an eviction scene. In the 1880s showing the breaching of a wall of a thatched cottage by a battering ram which suspended from a tripod is partly in the house. From a lantern slide originally belonging to Maud Gonne.
 
photograph / Eviction scene, 1880s
Photograph of an eviction scene. In the 1880s showing the breaching of a wall of a thatched cottage by a battering ram which suspended from a tripod is partly in the house. From a lantern slide originally belonging to Maud Gonne.
 
watercolour / Serving a Writ in Ireland
'Serving a Writ in Ireland'; pen, ink and watercolour sketch, by William Sadler III (probably). Showing whitewash thatched cottage with woman's face appearing in the window. Writ is being served by a humorous, slightly simian figure in battered clothing and top hat. Two more sinister figures reach...
 
print / Ejectment of Irish Tenantry, 1880s
Print of an illustration, probably from the Weekly Freeman, depicting an eviction scene, Ireland c.1880s. Titled Ejectment of Irish Tenantry.
 
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. House and family of Mr Solomon Frost, Rossmanagher, Six Mile Bridge, Co. Clare, upon whose holding the wooden...
 
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. Ruined home of Mr Matthias McGrath, Moyasta, Co. Clare. This house was thus demolished by the battering ram,...
 
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. John P. Frost and family of twelve young children, outside the wooden hut erected for their shelter on the...
 
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. Homestead of John P. Frost, wife and twelve young children, of Ranosmanagher, Six-Mile-Bridge, Co. Clare,...
 
photograph / A National League Hut, Murroe
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled A National League Hut, Murroe. Wooden hut with central door and two windows.
 
photograph / Mr Ellis taking notes, Fr Conroy interpreting, 1886
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Mr Ellis taking notes, Fr Conroy interpreting (Gaelic), Carrarhoe, September 1886.
 
supplement / How to Use the Arrears Act, 1882
Supplement given away with the Weekly Freeman, 16 September 1882, titled How to use the Arrears Act. Plain Directions for Poor Tenants. With the instruction to paste the notice onto a wall so he and his neighbours may have it for reference.
 
photograph / W. J. Sanders’s home, Woodford
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled W. J. Sanders’s home, Woodford. With Constabulary.
 
photograph album / Coolgreany Eviction Album, 1887
Photograph in album depicting the evictions at Coolgreany, on the Brooke Estate, North Co. Wexford, 1887. Group photograph, depicting Graham, Dr. Dillon, Fr Dunphy, Daniel Crilly M.P., Fr O’Neill (back row). McInerney (Freeman), John Kelly (National League), Pat Keogh (evicted) (front row)...
 
photograph album / Coolgreany Eviction Album, 1887
Photograph in album depicting the evictions at Coolgreany, on the Brooke Estate, North Co. Wexford, 1887. Photograph of Daniel Crilly M.P. Half-length portrait, seated, facing front, holding a piece of paper. Part of an album containing forty-seven photographs of Irish eviction scenes of the...
 
photograph album / Coolgreany Eviction Album, 1887
Photograph in album depicting the evictions at Coolgreany, on the Brooke Estate, North Co. Wexford, 1887. Group photograph of residents of Coolgreany, on Coolgreany Street, after the evictions (handwritten caption). Part of an album containing forty-seven photographs of Irish eviction scenes of...
 
photograph album / Coolgreany Eviction Album, 1887
Photograph in album depicting the evictions at Ballyfad, Coolgreany, on the Brooke Estate, North Co. Wexford, 1887. Photograph of Old Mrs Darcy 80 years, photographed in bed before eviction (handwritten caption). Name possibly Anne Darcy, July 1887. Part of an album containing forty-seven...
 
photograph album / Coolgreany Eviction Album, 1887
Photograph in album depicting the evictions at Ballyfad, Coolgreany, on the Brooke Estate, North Co. Wexford, 1887. Photograph of D. Crilly M.P. consoling Mrs Darcy (handwritten caption). Anne Darcy, July 1887. Part of an album containing forty-seven photographs of Irish eviction scenes of the...