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The Princess Mary 1914 Christmas Gift Box was a brass box that was intended as a Christmas present for ‘every sailor afloat and every soldier at the front’ in the Great War on Christmas Day 1914. This ‘gift from the nation’ was named after Princess…

Michael Galvin posthumous 'Black and Tan' Medal (comrac).

Michael Collins Funeral - 3 x Postcards.

Postcard of round tower monument memorial to Gen. Liam Lynch

Poblacht na h-Eireann 30-09-1922 (edited by Erskine Childers )

Plaster Profile of an tAthair Peadar

A simple-enough piece of metal symbolises the local innovation used when it came to assembling weapons a century ago in mid-Cork.
This pike-head was donated to our collection at Independence Museum Kilmurry by a former Irish Volunteers/IRA member…

After enduring a long, slow and torturous death over the preceding 74 days, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Teachta Dála for the Mid-Cork Constituency of the 1st Dáil Éireann and O/C of the Cork No. 1 Brigade of the IRA, finally achieved…

John Francis O’Connor was born on 13 Feb 1883 in County Cork into a devout Catholic family. He entered the Capuchin novitiate on 1 October 1899 and received the religious name of Dominic. In response to a call from Cardinal Michael Logue, Archbishop…

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