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 This small collection includes: unpublished private photographs of the young Vinny Byrne, the 1916 Irish Rebellion postcards, World War One era Irish Republican propaganda postcards, memoriam cards,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 Unpublished pictures of the Irish Rising rebels at Stafford Jail & the 1920 Dublin and Tipperary Hurling and Gaelic football teams as well as a Customs House burning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.

Seán Mac Diarmada (Sean McDermott) member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and good friend of veteran Fenian Tom Clarke. Seán Mac Diarmada joined the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1906 and went on to become a member of the IRB’s secret Military Committee. A key planner of the 1916 Rising he fought in the General Post Office (GPO) in Dublin Easter week 1916 (despite being afflicted by Polio). Executed by the British at Kilmainham Jail May 12, 1916.