Historical Collections Online
Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
commemorative saucer / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
commemorative jug / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
commemorative bowl / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
commemorative plate / Father Mathew Administering the Total Abstinance Pledge
Plate, probably Sunderland, about 1840. Glazed white earthenware souvenir plate. Octagonal shape; rim flange moulded with individual flowers. Moulded rope edge painted with purple lustre. Transfer printed in brown with Father Mathew in top coat and top hat preaching to a kneeling well dressed...
commemorative plate / Daniel O'Connell / Repeal
Creamware plate, English, about 1828. Creamware plate moulded with leafed flowers around the rim, painted in red, yellow, green, purple, orange. Red painted rim. Transfer printed verse in well with design around of rose, shamrock and thistle, painted in red, green and purple. The verse commemorates...
commemorative plate / Edward Blake M.A., Q.C.
Bread and butter plate; cream glazed ceramic plate with gold line bordering. In centre a line drawing of a man seated. Front facing. Enclosed with a wreath of ivy surmounted by a coat-of-arms. The Honourable Edward Blake M.A., Q.C. Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1871 to 1872.
cordial bottle / Irish Reform Cordial
Cordial bottle, Derbyshire, about 1835. Stoneware bottle made in two-part mould depicting Daniel O'Connell. The upper part of his coat and his hair are dark brown; much of the rest is in a mottled lighter brown. He is represented with curly hair, shirt with stock, pendant on ribbon, heavy coat with...cordial bottle lid / Irish Reform Cordial
Cordial bottle, Derbyshire, about 1835. Stoneware bottle made in two-part mould depicting Daniel O'Connell. The upper part of his coat and his hair are dark brown; much of the rest is in a mottled lighter brown. He is represented with curly hair, shirt with stock, pendant on ribbon, heavy coat with...
jug / Henry Grattan & Henry Fitzgerald
Jug, English, about 1790. Creamware jug, baluster shape, c-shaped handle, pointed spout. Transfer-printed in black with, on one face the cartoon and legend, 'The Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Representative in Parliament for the City of Dublin. The Man of the People'. On the other face the cartoon and...
commemorative jug / Horticultural Society of Ireland
Lustre jug, probably Staffordshire, circa 1817. Light glazed earthenware jug of Spode 'Low Dutch' shape. Pronounced lip moulded with acanthus leaf edge; shaped handle. Gold lustre (pink/purple in appearance) in band around neck and foot; outlining details around lip, as sprigs on handle and in an...
commemorative plate / William III
Commemorative plate, glazed earthenware, with transfer print depicting William III Equestrian Statue, probably the Grinling Gibbons staute of College Green, Dublin. 'No Surrender 1690' underneath.
punch bowl / Success to the Dundalk Volunteers
Commemorative punch bowl, Irish Volunteers, 18th century. Wedgewood pottery. Transfer printed. With images of ships in full sail, and the words 'Success to the Dundalk Volunteers'. Around outside are scenes of a Castle, a rural scene, and soldiers drinking punch. Dundalk Light Infantry Dragoons,...
/ William O'Brien, 1888
Tea plate, large, with portrait of William O'Brien, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Circular plate; protruding handles of undulating line on either side; circular recess in centre, upright foot. Recess printed with the figure of Hibernia surrounded by tied...
jug / King James II, 1689
Jug moulded in bamboo and rope pattern. Attached information claims that it was used by King James II to pour toddy, in the company of his army, at the house of the Cunningham Family at Castle Cooley, near Derry, in 1689. A note on the base reads that during the Siege of Derry King James II made...
tea saucer / William O'Brien, 1888
Saucer, with portrait of William O'Brien, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Circular deep saucer. Portrait of William O'Brien, Hibernia, and wolfhound beside round tower. Saucer flange all surround by sprays of shamrock. Registration mark 100761 and 'S & P'...
tea saucer / William O'Brien, 1888
Tea saucer, circular, deep, with portrait of William O'Brien, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. The figure of Hibernia, and wolfhound beside round tower. Saucer flange all surround by sprays of shamrock. Registration mark 100761 and 'S & P' below.
tea saucer / John Dillon, 1888
Tea saucer, with portrait of John Dillon, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Circular deep saucer. Portrait of John Dillon, Hibernia, and wolfhound beside round tower. Saucer flange all surround by sprays of shamrock. Registration mark 100761 and 'S & P' below.
tea plate / John Dillon, 1888
Plate, with portrait of John Dillon, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Circular plate, base ring. Hibernia surrounded by a tied ribbon with the legend 'Erin go Bragh' printed on the centre of the plate. Portrait of John Dillon, round tower and wolfhound; and...
tea plate / William Gladstone, 1888
Tea plate, with portrait of William Gladstone, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Circular plate, base ring. Hibernia surrounded by a tied ribbon with the legend 'Erin go Bragh' printed on the centre of the plate. Portrait of Gladstone, round tower and wolfhound;...