Service medal awarded to John O'Grady posthumously for his contribution to the Irish Volunteers during the Easter rising 1916.
John O'Grady, Irish Volunteer.
John O'Grady joined the Volunteers just four months before the Easter Rising. Based in Jacob's biscuit factory, he was one of the 15 cyclists sent out be Thomas MacDonagh to draw off the fire of the British soldiers besieging Boland's Mills. As John cycled near the Royal College of Surgeons on Saint Stephen's Green, he was shot and mortally wounded. O'Grady was posthumously awarded this 1916 service medal as the only fatality of his battalion during Easter week.
Letter from John O'Grady to his future wife Josephine arranging a meeting to go see a pantomime in the Theatre Royal.
"Naughty Mama"
John O'Grady sent this note to his future wife, Josephine, inviting her to see the panto in the Theatre Royal. After confidently stating he'd see her "at the Metal Bridge [i.e. the Ha'penny Bridge]", he followed up "Hoping that your naughty mamma won't object"!
Commemorative navy and blue wristwatch from the Dublin Millennium 1988 with instructions
Sans titreSmall bottle of Powers whiskey with cork and measuring 71ml
Sans titreCommemorative navy and blue wrist watch from the 1988 Dublin Millenium
Sans titreAn Alligator / Caymen taxidermy display on a wooden base, featuring naturalistic details and straw accents.
Sans titreFramed poster for The Bailey's Lecture series on James Joyce- Specifically "The City of Joyce" by Mario Vargas Llosa in Earlsfort terrace UCD
Sans titreModel of the Theatre Royal on Hawkins Street, encase in a glass case
Sans titreCompetitor's Card of Gearóid O'Colmáin for the European Heavyweight Boxing Championships in 1947
Sans titreA blue plastic money box of Dublin Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (DSPCA) with a chain
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