Militaria Archive

Postcards and photographs from the private collection of Comdt. Vincent Byrne, E Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Old IRA.

Postcards and photographs from the private collection of Comdt. Vincent Byrne, E Company, 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade, Old IRA (several of these are from the Scrapbook also featured on this site). Card obverse are included as reference for Collectors. This small collection includes: unpublished private photographs of the young Vinny Byrne, the 1916 Irish Rebellion postcards, World War One era Irish Republican propaganda postcards, memoriam cards, Frongoch postcards & pictures of the Rebels returning from Frongoch. Unpublished pictures of the Irish Rising rebels at Stafford Jail & the 1920 Dublin and Tipperary Hurling and Gaelic football teams as well as a Customs House burning postcard. 26th Battalion Irish Army officers during WW2 and the Dublin Brigade marching through Dublin, Séan Lemass with Vinny Byrne at a Michael Collins Commemoration. Also Customs House and Easter Rising commmemorations from as recent as the 1983. If you can identify any of the people in any of these pictures please get in contact using the email address below.

Irish Republican Army, 1916 postcard. Joseph Mc Guinness IRA Volunteer. Michael Collins nominated Joe McGuinness using the slogan "Put him in, to get him out". He was one of the first Sinn Féin members elected. The effect of the by-election victories was almost immediate. The British released the remaining 120 prisoners. Joseph McGuinness was one of 73 members of the first Dáil Éireann (from 21 January 1919 until 10 May 1921).