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 This small collection includes: unpublished private photographs of the young Vinny Byrne, the 1916 Irish Rebellion postcards, World War One era Irish Republican propaganda postcards, memoriam cards,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 Unpublished pictures of the Irish Rising rebels at Stafford Jail & the 1920 Dublin and Tipperary Hurling and Gaelic football teams as well as a Customs House burning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 Rebellion, Easter 1916 postcard - J.J.Walsh of the Hibernian Rifles reported to Connolly in the GPO. Sentenced to Death by the British, commuted to 10 yrs penal servitude. Active in promoting the GAA and revival of the ancient Celtic Tailteann Games (1829 BC). Sinn Féin TD (Cork) in the 1918 election and later member of Cumann na nGaedhael, a TD and minister in the Cosgrave government.