Victorian slate clock presented in 1894 to Charles Quinn Esquire by the Regular Operative Coopers Society of the City of Dublin. This was one of Dublin’s oldest trade guilds that dated back to the 1500’s.

Collar badge worn by non-commissioned ranks of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

Postcard sent from Athlone in May 1916 by a soldier of the 2/8th Sherwood Foresters. This unit was sent to Dublin during the 1916 Rising and was engaged in heavy fighting with Republican forces of the Third Battalion Dublin Brigade at Mount St. Bridge.

King George V reviewing boys of the Hibernian Military School in the Phoenix Park Dublin in July 1911.

City of Dublin Steam Packet Co ship RMS Connaught. She was sunk by a German U Boat in March 1917.

City of Dublin Steam Packet Co postcard sent from the RMS Leinster to an address in Dublin. In October 1918 the Leinster was torpedoed by a German U-Boat a few miles off the coast of Dublin resulting in the largest single loss of life in the Irish Sea.

Royal Dublin Fusiliers title, this particular pattern was introduced just prior to the start of the Boer War.

WW1 certificate of service awarded to Samuel George Corrigan who served with the 10th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Given his enlistment date it’s likely that he took part in the 1916 Rising when the 10th Battalion were engaged against Irish Republican forces.

Photos of his son and niece sent in August 1916 to Irish Volunteer James Mallon while he was imprisoned in Frongoch Camp in Wales. Mallon had fought in the 1916 Rising and he would later be interned in Ballykinlar Camp during the War of Independence in 1921.

The 1916 Rising wasn’t General Maxwells first time in Dublin. In 1908 while serving as Chief Staff Officer to the Irish Command, he sent this letter on Royal Hospital Kilmainham headed paper to someone who requested his autograph.

Ticket for a draw held in Dublin in October 1934 to raise money for Irish Republican cause.

WW1 patriotic postcard featuring a soldier thinking of home, which is represented as an Irish cottage and shamrocks. The original sender has crossed out Tipperary to the front and written “Greystones”. The card was sent during WW1 from London to an address in Dublin.

Six WW1 British patriotic postcards featuring the popular song “It’s a long, long way to Tipperary”. Each card has a different first verse, the chorus of the song and titles range from The Debarkation, On the way to Ypres, Driving back the Huns to Surrender on the Rhine.

Two cap badges used by The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Boer War variant with retaining loops on left and First World War variant with slider to right.

Irish Civil War era postcard produced by the Sackville Portrait Studio in Dublin of Seamus Ryan who came from Kiltimagh in Co. Mayo. Having survived the War of Independence and Irish Civil War he retired from the Army and both he and his wife later died in a fire.

An Irish Civil War era photograph of an unknown officer in the National Army.

Presentation booklet produced by the Department of Posts and Telegraphs in 1958 to commemorate the centenary of Thomas J. Clarke’s birth. This particular example is signed by his widow, Kathleen Clarke.

A photograph of Private Doyle and Sergeant Henry taken after their release in May 1916. Both men were captured by Irish Republican forces and held in the GPO during the 1916 Rising. Sergeant Henry served in the School of Musketry in Dollymount.

WW1 propaganda postcard with list of Irish Regiments of the British Army.

WW1 Mercantile Marine Medal awarded to Patrick Longmore from Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire) in Dublin. Patrick along with his father and brothers served at sea and one of his brothers was killed on the RMS Leinster when it was torpedoed by a U boat in the Irish Sea in October 1918.