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.
 


photograph / W. J. Sanders’s home, Woodford
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled W. J. Sanders’s home, Woodford. With Constabulary.
 

reproduction / Hue and Cry, 1866
Photographic copy of the cover of the Police Gazette newspaper Hue and Cry, 11th December 1866.
 


rent roll / Mayo, 1800
Rent roll, with list of tenants, properties, rents and length of tenure. From the estate of Denis Brown, Co. Mayo. Three pages (folded).
 

illustration / Ballingarry, and distant view of Slievenamon
Reproduction of an illustration, possibly from the Freeman's Journal. Rural village scene, titled Ballingarry, and distant view of Slievenamon.
 

illustration / The South View of St. Stephen's Place
Print, The South View of St. Stephen's Place. Antonio Canale detinavit, G. Lereau fecit.
 

illustration / Irish girl, late 15th century
Print, Irish girl, late 15th century. Positive print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Kerne or swiftrunning...
 

illustration / Gallowglass, professional soldier, end 15th century
Print, Gallowglass, professional soldier, end 15th century. Negative print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. ...
 

illustration / Irish countrywoman, 19th century
Print, Irish countrywoman, 19th century. Positive print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Kerne or...
 

illustration / Irish countrywoman, 19th century
Print, Irish countrywoman, 19th century. Negative print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Kerne or...
 

illustration / Irish girl, late 15th century
Print, Irish girl, late 15th century. Negative print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Kerne or swiftrunning...
 

illustration / Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century
Print, light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Positive print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th...
 

illustration / Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century
Print, light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Negative print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th...
 

illustration / Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century
Print, Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Positive print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Kerne or...
 

illustration / Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century
Print, Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Negative print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. Kerne or...
 

illustration / Kerne or swiftrunning foot soldier, late 16th century
Print, Kerne or swiftrunning foot soldier, late 16th century. Positive print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th...
 

illustration / Kerne or swiftrunning foot soldier, late 16th century
Print, Kerne or swiftrunning foot soldier, late 16th century. Negative print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th...
 

illustration / Gallowglass, professional soldier, end 15th century
Print, Gallowglass, professional soldier, end 15th century. Positive print. One of a set of six illustrations, in positive and negaitve print, of Irish traditional dress. Irish girl, late 15th century. Light armed non-professional soldier, early 16th century. Irish gentlewoman, early 16th century. ...
 

photograph / Traditional Irish cottage
Coloured photograph, probably early 19th century. Scene outside a traditional Irish cottage, whitewashed and thatched. Man seated on a small cart drawn by a donkey, a woman seated outside the door, an elderly woman spinning, and in the bakcground two men on a jaunting car. Includes cows and pigs.
 


election poster / Funeral of Sam Dixon, 1832
Election propaganda poster, Irish General Elections, 1832. Relating to the defeat of Samuel Dickson by the Whig party's Thomas Spring-Rice. "Funeral of Sam Dixon" with a woodcut of a coffin bearing two urns and printed text.
 
