A new badge was produced in time for the 2018 'Burning of the Custom House' Conference, incorporating the magnificent statue commissioned by the Dublin Brigade to commemorate the attack on the Custom House.
Designed by Yann Renard-Goulet, the bronze statue - which depicts Mother Éire with a dying soldier - stands 5.5m tall, and was unveiled by President Sean T. O'Kelly on Sunday, May 20th, 1956. Around the plinth is an inscription commemorating the five members of the Second Battalion who were killed in the attack.
The Badge, with a stick-pin and clutch, is 25mm high by 15mm wide, and carries the inscription "Custom House - Teach an Chustaim - 25 - 5 - 1921. Each is mounted on a specially designed postcard which shows the statue on a background of flames, while the reverse has details of the statue and a transcript of the inscription.
This beautiful limited edition pin badge and card was designed by artist Mícheál Ó Doibhilín to mark this most significant event of the Irish War of Independence, and each postcard is individually autographed by him.