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 This small collection includes: unpublished private photographs of the young Vinny Byrne, the 1916 Irish Rebellion postcards, World War One era Irish Republican propaganda postcards, memoriam cards,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 Unpublished pictures of the Irish Rising rebels at Stafford Jail & the 1920 Dublin and Tipperary Hurling and Gaelic football teams as well as a Customs House burning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 - Francis Sheehy Skeffington, pacifist & suffragette, Home Ruler, un-sympathetic to Republicanism or the Volunteers. He was executed by British troops along with two pro-British journalists who had witnessed several murders by the British army of non combatants. The Unionist Dublin Evening Mail was to claim that a Dublin Jew, Edelstein had been responsible for the arrest of the Loyalist editor and propagandist Thomas Dickson, who was to be among the murder victims [which included Francis Sheehy Skeffington] of the frenzied British army Captain Bowen-Colthurst.