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.
badge / NIPSA
Trade Union Badge, c.1980. NIPSA (North Ireland Public Servants Alliance). Metal, with red enamel, with 'NIPSA'.resource / 1797 Oath of Allegiance
1797 Oath of Allegiance. Photocopy and typed script of text of Oath administerd by William Burton to his tenants in Carlow, 20 November 1797.
print / Canon Sheehan
Canon Sheehan, P.P., D.D., Doneraile. Author of 'My New Curate'. Print of photograph of probably issued as a newspaper supplement.
portrait / Henry Sheares
Henry Sheares. Print issued with the Weekly Freeman and National Press 11 June 1898.
portrait / Thomas Russell
Thomas Russell. Print issued with the Weekly Freeman and National Press 20 August 1898.
portrait / Thomas Addis Emmet
Thomas Addis Emmet. Print issued with the Weekly Freeman and National Press 23 April 1898.
portrait / James Napper Tandy
James Napper Tandy. Print issued with the Weekly Freeman and National Press, 25 June 1898.resource / John Boyle O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reilly. Photocopy of an article "John Boyle O'Reilly's Tree" from Landscope (Journal of the Western Australian Dept. of Conservationa 1986).
membership card / Irish Home Rule League, 1874
Irish Home Rule League 1874. Membership card on the National Role made out to Robert O'Sullivan.
engraving / Robert Emmet
Robert Emmet. Mounted full plate photograph of Comerford's drawing. Photograph of print or engraving of Robert Emmet in side profile. Comerford's drawing made at the trial, now in the possession of the Emmet Family.
reproduction / Sarah Curran
Sarah Curran. Mounted half plate photograph from Ronney's painting signed "To G. Lyons from J.J. Reynolds 14.3.1922".
portrait / Mrs. Tone and Children
Engraving, Mrs. Tone and Children, a page from Madden's 'United Irishmen'.
ticket / Cumann na nGaedheal
Cumann na nGaedheal National Committee. Printed ticket for the reception of the Delegates to the National Convention (?1924), at the Metropole Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin, Tuesday 10th May.
membership card / Cumann na nGaedheal, 1924
Cumann na nGaedheal. Membership card, 1924, bearing the manuscript signature of Liam Ó Cláir.
membership card / 1782 Volunteers of Ireland, John Dillon, 1843
Volunteers of 1782 Revived (1782 Club, Ireland), dated 10 October 1843. Membership card made out to John Blake Dillon. Signed by hand by Thomas Matthew Ray. Numbered 2405. Drawn and engraved by Holbrooke, 4 Crow Street, Dublin, 1843.
photograph / de Valera & Aiken, 1933
Eamon de Valera and Frank Aiken, 1933. Mounted photograph cut from the Evening Mail showing the cloaked President with Aiken "on their way to the saluting base."resource / Home Rule Debate
Home Rule Debate. Photocopy of "Programme of the Parliamentary Debate to be held in the Ancient Concert Rooms" with the Solicitors' Apprentices Debating Society taking the roles of government and opposition.
badge / Dublin Council of Trade Unions
DCTU - Dublin Council of Trade Unions -centenary badges, one of two. Two enamelled staybrite badges in presentation cases. The plough over Dublin Castle within a band bearing the legend 'Dublin Council of Trade Unions'. On scrolls, above, '1886-1986'; below, 'Heroic Dublin'. Field on one blue, on...
badge / Dublin Council of Trade Unions
DCTU - Dublin Council of Trade Unions - centenary badges, one of two. Two enamelled staybrite badges in presentation cases. The plough over Dublin Castle within a band bearing the legend 'Dublin Council of Trade Unions'. On scrolls, above, '1886-1986'; below, 'Heroic Dublin'. Field on one blue, on...