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 badge / Belfast Loyal Orange Widows Fund, 1974
Badge of the Belfast Loyal Orange Widows Fund, 1974. Silvered metal badge with red, blue and orange enamelling. Two flags crossed on an orange background inside in circle which has the inscription on a blue background.
pin badge / Tourist Trophy, Ulster 1934
Pin badge, brass with black and white enamel. Leaves around the letters 'TT', with a chequered flag and a motor car. 'Ulster 1934' underneath. Badge of the 1934 Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy motor car race in Ulster.
sticker / Easter Lily
Easter Lily sticker badge, two. 1916 Rising Commemoration. Coloured white and orange on a green background.
commemorative badge / 1913
Set of four circular white badges with the number 13 printed in black on a green shamrock. Possibly a commemorative issue.
sticker / Support Loyal Ulster
Sticker badge, 'Support Loyal Ulster'. Circular badge with inscription on a red, white and blue backing. 1916 written on the back in pencil.
badge / Home Rule for Ireland
Home Rule for Ireland badge, with a gold coloured metal harp surmounted by a shamrock, and a green textile ribbon backing.
brooch / Irish Nationalist, c.1879
Circular badge, Irish Nationalist symbols cut through - shamrocks, a celtic cross, a round tower, a harp, a ruined monastery or church and a dog. Ten beads around the outer edge- these may refer to the rosary. Silver hallmarked with Birmingham marks, c. 1879.
commemorative badge / Anne Devlin, death, 1851
Commemorative badge, the death of Anne Devlin, Irish republican, and servant to Robert Emmet. 'Ireland remembers Annie Devlin Heroine 1851 R.I.P'. Cream coloured card with inscription printed in green with orange textile tassles along bottom edge.
pin badge /
Bronze pin affixed to a piece of card - the head shaped somewhat like a celtic cross. Made by Quinn, Dublin.
paper bag / Irishwomen's Franchise League, 1914
Irish Suffragette Movement propaganda object - brown paper with inscription in green print, 'Votes for Women'. Irishwomen's Franchise League, circa 1914.
seal-matrix /
Metal seal matrix with bone handle. Seal is of a coat-of-arms with lion and unicorn rampant.
button / Daniel O'Connell / Repeal
Repeal of the Union rosette. Rosette of green and cream/white ribbon, with a button fixed to the centre. The button shows a side profile of Daniel O'Connell in bas-relief, with 'D. O'Connell M.P.' and 'Repeal of the Union' around.
relic / Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Skeletal remains of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Two cervical vertebrae and one metatarsal (foot) bone from the second coffin (larger). Supporting documentation states that the bones and skull were in the third coffin.
relic / Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Piece of lead from the coffin of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
walking stick / Michael Davitt
Fragment of wood from the walking stick of Michael Davitt.
pamphlet / The Conditions of Employment Act Handbook
Pamphlet. Cover states - 'The Conditions of Employment Act Handbook', by L.J. Duffy, Secretary of The Labour Party. 2nd edition. Published by The Labour Party, 21 Molesworth St., Dublin, 1936. Price 6d.
pamphlet / A Worker's Republic - Socialist or Distributist?
Pamphlet with green cover. Cover reads - 'A Worker's Republic - Socialist or Distributist? A lecture by Thomas Johnson in Dublin' October, 1937. (Reprinted from Labour News) Price Twopence. Published by Dublin City Constituencies Council, Labour Party, 29 Eden Quay, Dublin."
photograph / Michael Collins
Print of a photograph of General Michael Collins, dressed in full uniform.
pamphlet / The Labour Problem
Pamphlet. 'The Labour Problem', by S. O'Ceileachair D.D. Series C - Social Problems - No. 5. Cumann Léigheachraí and Phobhail, 1921.