A woman and boy outside a cabin, Co. Leitrim, ca. 1892-1894.

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Richard Moore holding up an example of a rubber bullet which permanently blinded him back in 1972 in Northern Ireland

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An Adventure

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TIL: What Irish Olympian Peter O Connor did in 1906 Olympics

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T’was fairly quiet yesterday in fairness?

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IRA fighter, 1970s

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Ireland, 1982. Eileen Flynn is sacked from her position as a teacher as she decides to share her life with a separated father of three and later having a child with him. 1985, the High Court, Eileen loses her case for unfair dismissal.

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Black and Tans leave Ireland to go to Palestine 1922

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One of the bog bodies of Ireland, Clonycavan man was found in 2003 at Clonycavan, Co Meath. It's believe he was murdered about 2,300 years ago. Body is on display in the national Nuseum of Ireland in Dublin.

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Saw this in Dublin near Amien Street

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Result of the 1918 General Election.

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Famous abolitionist Frederick Douglas commenting on Ireland

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Lads and Ladettes. I built the Spanish Armada ships that sunk in Sligo. Its going into a MUSEUM !

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What's the oldest family photo you have? The baby is my great grandmother, the woman my great great grand mother! Photo taken over 100 years ago!

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How Algerians took an entire Anglo-Irish town into slavery

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Irish sailor executed in Malta

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Birmingham 6

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James Connolly Statue in Troy NY

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WW1 propaganda poster to encourage Irish men to join the war effort.

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I made this to hang up in honor of Saint Patrick's feast day and his namesake regiment in the Mexican army. Batallon de San Patricio, defensores de LA patria.

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Why did the National Army adopt a standing collar for their uniforms?

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Mythical beasts of Ireland - Hi group I thought you might like to see the latest map in my mythical beasts project. You can read more about the map and the myths on it on the website.

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Result of the 1918 General Election.

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Help identify this medal my granny gave me . Sure it say Feir Lair na heireann ( maybe true men of ireland ? ) . 1906 .

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This is what the Romans say about Eire

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President Michael D. Higgins (early 1990s)

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Grianan Ailigh is a stone hill fort on a mountain at Inishowen in County Donegal, Ireland, built in 6/7th cent. A.D. and restored in 1870. (4000x3000)

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Bit tongue in cheek but since everyone's making mad justifications for things why not let us throw our oar in for the craic?

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Battlefields of Ireland. And loads of other stuff in an interactive map

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Ballysaggartmore Towers, Waterford

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Ethnographic Map of Great Britain and Ireland 1856

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Map of Ireland 1630s

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Found this rock in a field near an old house ruin west of Ireland. Could it be stone age? If not does anyone know what it may have been?

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A girl holds her mother's hand while running to school, protected by an RUC officer in riot gear, during the Holy Cross Dispute in 2001.

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We should definitely bring this Irish dress back in Ireland, would be a good first step to decolonization.

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Northern Ireland, 1972 (Any details welcome)

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The Pirate Queen of Ireland: Grace O'Malley.

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Historical Comparison of Irish language in the island of Ireland

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Michael Collins very dodgy moustache.

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Famous abolitionist Frederick Douglas commenting on Ireland

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Richard Moore, holding up an example of a rubber bullet which permanently blinded him back in 1972 in Northern Ireland

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WW1 propaganda poster to encourage Irish men to join the war effort.

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Irish Army Officer (1930s)

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On this day in 1803, Robert Emmet was executed for his role in leading the 1803 rebellion against British rule in Ireland. when my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written

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Knife dug up during construction

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On this day in 1803, Robert Emmet led a United Irishmen rebellion against British rule in Dublin.

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Last British troops leave the Irish free state-1922

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Lenin had a Dublin accent

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Aerial shot of Michael Collins' funeral cortege (UCD Archives)

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A list of Gaeilc objects looted from the Island of Ireland by The British Crown. They reside in the British Museum. Though the Irish People loan treasures and art works to the World (including the The British Museum) His Majesty's Government refuses to re

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A family, after being evicted, moves into a crude home. Ireland. Circa 1880-1900.

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On Which Side Are You? Seachtain Na Gaeilge poster advocating for a resurgeance of the Irish language (1913).

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Languages of Britain and Ireland, 400 AD - 1900 AD.

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America gets its second Irish-Catholic President since 1776.

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Land Map of Ireland 1881 showing the largest landowners by county

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The Black Irish - does any one have any information on this?

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A list of Gaelic objects looted from the Island of Ireland by The British Crown. They reside in the British Museum. Though the Irish People loan treasures and art works to the World (including the The British Museum) His Majesty's Government refuses to return the pieces Gaelic Art.

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On this day in 1916, Roger Casement was executed by the British for his role in the Easter Rising.

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Where Mammoth Bones have been Discovered in Ireland

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‘Irish Traveller Family’, Killorglin, County Kerry, Ireland, 1954 a fascinating Kodachrome by Inge Morath

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On this Day Human Rights Lawyer Patrick Pat Finucane was assassinated by loyalist paramilitaries in collusion with british state forces. (source Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report). subsequently prime minster david cameron apologized in the House of Commons (british parliament.)

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This is my interpretation of one side of the Mexican Army's St. Patrick Battalion flag, from the Mexican American War (1846-1848)The original only exists in firsthand descriptions.

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The hand of a naturally mummified body found in a peat bog in Croghan Hill Ireland, its 2,300 years old.

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map of Irish spade types

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Uncle O'Grimacey

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Viking-Age Dublin in AD 1000, Ireland.

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This a photo of Summerhill House, Co. Meath. It was considered one of the grandest mansions in Europe, with 100 rooms. Land agitation led to republican workers and farm hands been evicted, the IRA then became involved, redistributed the land among the workers and families, and then burned the house.

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Interesting little bit I stumbled across on Ark of the Covenant Wikipedia

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A photo of my Great Grandfather, found today by my grandfather.

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⁊ is called Tironian and it means 'and'. It is still found on some Irish Road signs

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Is anyone here familiar or interested in my great, great grandfather’s work? Photographic history of Ireland from the 1860s through WWI.

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can someone give a backstory for this image?

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I need help to decipher this name from an 1880 marriage document. Nellie was from Tipperary. Thanks!

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Population change since 1840

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Monument of Queen Victoria being removed from in front of Leinster House, Dublin (1948)

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Artist from Derry. Got a commission to paint The Dubliners a few months back, hope you guys like 👍

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Guinness is good for you

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Distribution of Irish speakers in 1871

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Inside the Four Courts during the Irish Civil War

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A painting I made of my hometown of Omagh, Co.Tyrone entitled Jail Square . I will write a bit of its history in the comments.

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A seventeenth-century effigy of St Patrick at Tobar Padraig holy well in Ryehill Co. Galway. “Pray for Fr Thomas Kieghry ... 1688.”

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Thought this might be of interest here. My great grandfather's medal from the War of Independence.

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“And the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless mean, but few...” The Easter Rising began today in 1916.

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Was Bobby Sands a terrorist? Why or why not? Help me understand this controversial figure. Let’s discuss.

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A picture representing the status of the Irish man during the 1800

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Artist from Derry. Did an acrylic painting last year of Tom Crean, probably one of the most fascinating life stories to come out of Ireland.

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Unknown photographer, James Joyce in a field in the south of France (1922)

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Colourised photo of Dail meeting in the mansion house, August 1921

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Irish republican socialist and hunger striker Bobby Sands was born on this day in 1954.

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A 16th Century Map of Ireland

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Irish railways.

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15 year old Dublin boy expelled for choosing soccer over Gaelic

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‘Military officer “holding up” a civilian in Dublin’ (1920)

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My great grandmother took this photo approx 1946. We believe that is General Franco on the left

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Orgins of a stereotype

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A room in a tenement house in the Coombe area of Dublin, 1913.

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A young woman playing a harp to a large crowd in about 1910. With thanks to Peter Donaghy.

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Irish🇮🇪🇮🇪 railway network 1920 Vs 2020

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I have no Enemies under Six

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Ireland has lost more of its wetlands (including peatlands) since 1700 than any other country in the world - over 90% are gone.

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Trigpoints: How Ireland was Mapped

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After a bailiffs' visit, circa 1888

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The many splits of Sinn Fein in the form of a flow chart

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Lenin died 99 years ago today, in Simbirsk. He is pictured here with James’ Connolly’s son Roddy in 1920. He described the Easter Rising as a “decisive blow against the power of English imperialism” and spoke English with an Irish accent, his teacher being from Ireland.

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Stone Circles in Donegal.

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An eviction in Moyasta, Co. Clare, 1888.

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This eviction took place on the Vandeleur Estate, Co. Clare ca. 1886-1900

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One of the many roads to nowhere built during the Famine

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The Pre-Famine diet of the Irish in Ireland - 1839

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Typhoid Mary was the Irish-born cook who didn't believe that it was her who was spreading typhoid and continued to work in kitchens despite being told not to

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Artist from Derry. Another couple of portraits I finished this week of Connolly and Collins.

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On this day in 1922 Michael Collins, Commander in Chief of the National Army was shot dead when ambushed by the IRA at Beal na mBlath, Cork. When advised against making the tour of army positions in Cork, Collins responded; They won't shoot me in my own county,.

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During the Battle of Oulart Hill in 1798, the Wexford Rebels fought the British army, in particular the North Cork militia that was made up of mostly Irish-speaking Catholic soldiers. Ironically the rebels were English speakers. The battle resulted in victory for the rebels of Wexford.

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March 25th, 1940, front page of Time Magazine, Eamon de Valera

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A photo of Dublin in 1848 (colourised)

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Farm labourers taking a break on a farm in Rockwell, Tipperary in 1955.

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Lenin had a Dublin accent

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Belfast 1984 just kids playing

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Interesting grave marking? Any ideas?

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Martin Doyle Martin Doyle receiving his Victoria Cross in June 1919 at Buckingham Palace for his actions in ww1. He later served in the IRA in the 1920 war of independence and later the Irish civil war on the pro-treaty side

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July 1963, front page of Time magazine, Taoiseach Sean Lemass

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Is there a specific name for these types of medieval Irish chapels?

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Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery | Irish Famine | Boston

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British Military Historian Max Hastings said this about Ireland's neutrality in WW2.

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Two boys in Templemore, Ireland [1854] {5 years after the Great Famine}

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The dirtiest grifter yet: “signed by his nephew Kevin Barry. “ Stay vigilant and warn others

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Italian propaganda poster from 1944 - Translation: For Great Britain all races and peoples are equal

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My grandmother, Blanche (Murray) O'Connor. Born prematurely in Canada on their way over, they settled in Dorchester Ma with throngs of other Irish. This would have been taken around 1920.

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Women who only want a good time

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The fascinating origins of the counties names (and GAA nicknames). History in comments.

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Photo from an eviction scene in Co.Waterford, in 1887.

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Map of evictions during The Great Famine

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The answer to this equation is genocide.

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Hello! Could anyone help me out in telling me what this ogham tattoo means?

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On this Day, Ireland, Human Rights Lawyer Patrick Pat Finucane was assassinated by loyalist paramilitaries in collusion with british state forces. (source Sir Desmond de Silva’s Report). subsequently prime minster david cameron apologized in the House of Commons (british parliament.)

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Came across this on Wikipedia.

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Could anyone help identify the uniform?

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107 years ago today,the Battle of Mount Street Bridge. Drawing by OP.

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A photo from the Coolgreany evictions in 1887

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West Connemara IRA flying column

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A girl in roller skates looks at a British soldier. Northern Island, 1972.

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The 1867 Fenian Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

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An eviction. Ireland, 1888.

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A report on the death of Michael Collins from Japan

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Irish Brigadists Frank Ryan and John Robinson stand together before the camera in the town of Belchite, October of 1937. Spanish Civil War.

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1982 memo from Cabinet Secretary to PM Margaret Thatcher, outlining IRA’s relationship with the Soviet Union

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No Rent Manifesto from Irish Land League c1881.

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The Aims Of Fianna Fail (1934)

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It always baffles me how a story 800 years of oppression, rebellion & national pride can be culminated so well in one picture. O’ Connell Bridge, April 18 1949.

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UCCs 2,300-year-old mummy

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