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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.
election poster / Wexford Election, 11 July 1818
Election poster, Co. Wexford Election, July 11th 1818. Mr (Robert) Carew and Mr (Caesar) Colclough. HH:1935.148-150. Three election posters. Co. Wexford Election, July 11th 1818; July 13th 1818; and July 18th 1818. Also a letter dated July 24th 1841, signed Chas. (Charles) A. Walker, concerning an...election poster / Wexford Election, 13 July 1818
Election poster, Co. Wexford Election, July 13th 1818. Mr (Robert) Carew and Mr (Caesar) Colclough. HH:1935.148-150. Three election posters. Co. Wexford Election, July 11th 1818; July 13th 1818; and July 18th 1818. Also a letter dated July 24th 1841, signed Chas. (Charles) A. Walker, concerning an...
election poster / Wexford Election, 18 July 1818
Election poster, Co. Wexford Election, July 18th 1818. Mr (Robert) Carew and Mr (Caesar) Colclough. HH:1935.148-150. Three election posters. Co. Wexford Election, July 11th 1818; July 13th 1818; and July 18th 1818. Also a letter dated July 24th 1841, signed Chas. (Charles) A. Walker, concerning an...
letter / Robert Carew, 1841
Letter, dated July 24th 1841, to Mr Robert Carew at Waterford, signed Chas. (Charles) A. Walker, concerning an election involving a Mr Sutton, Mr Power, Mr Morgan and Mr Hall. HH:1935.148-150. Three election posters. Co. Wexford Election, July 19th 1818; July 13th 1818; and July 18th 1818. Also a...
coatee / 1782 Club, 1840
Coat, green cloth. Cut away in front, tails at back. Yellow turn back in front with two shamrock on either side in gold embroidery and sequins, narrow gold braid shoulder cords and narrow gold braid loop on cuffs. Three brass buttons on each side in front and two small buttons on cuffs and one on...
medal / Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915
Medal, cast iron, Sinking of the Lusitania. A sinking ship, around above 'Keine Bann Ware'. In exergue 'Der Grossdampfer, Lusitania - durch ein Deutches Tauchboot versenkt 5 May 1915'. Reverse: a crowd of people approaching Death (a skeleton), who sells tickets at the Cunard Line ticket booth,...
rock / Fenian escape, Manchester, 1867
Stone object. Inscribed "This stone was the one used to break into the prison van during the Fenian Outrage in Manchester when Sergeant Charles Brett was shot, September 18th, 1867." The stone was said to have been used in the prison yard break by Fenian escapees in Manchester.
tool / Charles Stewart Parnell, 1860
Revolver and case. Steel revolver, wooden stock, muzzle loading. On top of drum guard engraved "London Armoury" on right side below drum "B10938 Adams Patent. no. 26602R". On right side of barrel engraved "C.S. Parnell, Avondale". In box also bullet mould, powder horn and tools. Oak box with...
freedom box / Charles Stewart Parnell, c.1880
Silver scroll box, cylindrical, presented to the Honourable Charles Stewart Parnell by Joseph O'Donoghue of New York, United States. With American flag depicted. Cyclindrical case, silver, for address or flag. Sides spirally fluted with a rococco edging at top and bottom and at junction between...
poster / Whiteboys / Captain Moonlight, c. 1760s
Poster, warning West Cork Magistrates against the licensee at the Bantry Railway station. Signed (in print) by Captain Moonlight. Printed on white paper with black lettering. Probably c. 1760s.
death mask /
Death mask of male, on stand. Subject unknown.
ticket / Covent Garden Theatre, 1750
Theatre pass, copper, bust of the Duke of Cumberland to right, around: GULIELMUS DUX CUMBRIAE. Reverse: GALLERY. Covent Garden Theatre, London, circa 1750. Issued by the Connolly Tour Committee.
prison art / Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
French Prisoner of War model ship. unnamed 60 gunner. Three-masted war ship of bone and wood. Prisoner art, early 19th century, period of the Napoleonic Wars. Note in archive file AI/012/002 states: 'Model of three-master of French type made of bone belonging to a class usually ascribed to French...
button / Repeal of the Union
Repeal of the Union button, brass gilt. In the centre a harp with an Irish crown, shamrock on each side. Around: 'God Save the Queen/Repeal of the Union'. Maker's stamp on back: Clancy, Dublin. Circa 1830-40.
medal / Home Rule
Medallet, Home Rule, brass. Head of William E. Gladstone to left; around: W.E. Gladstone born Dec. 29th 1809. Reverse: Bust of Charles Stewart Parnell to left; around: C.S. Parnell born June 1846; and below: Home Rule.
pocket book / Wolfe Tone
Pocket-book of Theobald Wolfe Tone. Red leather, inscribed in ink "T.W. Tone" inside flap, and "T.W. Tone, Nov. 11th 1798, Te nunc habit ista secundium" inside the pocketbook.
letter / Peter Tone
Handwritten note in ink, signed Peter Tone (father of Theobald Wolfe Tone), directed to John Sweetman. Was contained in Theobald Wolfe Tone's pocket book. 'Dear Sir, The enclosed has been ordered by my son to be delivered to you in rememberance of him and am your most obedient servant, Peter Tone'.
letter / Horace / John Sweetman, c.1798
A leather bound volume of Horace, Q Horatii Flacci Opera, Dublinii, E Typographia Academiae, MDCCXLV. With letter signed by John Sweetman, a leading United Irishman, at Kilmainham Gaol, c.1798, on the inside front fly leaves. Formerly the property of John Sweetman.
bookplate / Cuala Press
Fourteen bookplates of the Cuala Press.