Bullet lodged in cricket bat in rebellion crossfire

This cricket bat was on display in the front window of Elvery’s when it became an early casualty of the violence that erupted in Dublin’s Sackville St, now O’Connell St, on Easter Monday, 1916.

J.W. Elvery & Co, one Ireland’s oldest sports stores, specialised in sporting goods and waterproofed wear, with branches in Dublin, Cork’s St Patrick’s St, and London’s Conduit St,t. Each shop had the distinctive statue of an elephant above the front door, giving them the name Elvery’s Elephant House.

In 1916, the Dublin city centre branch was located at 46 & 47 Lower Sackville St, and was famous enough to be mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses.