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 / Irish Parliament, 1886
Print depicting the members of the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1886. Each member has an individual photograph, with name.
print / Home Rule
Three tea packets, used as nationalist propaganda material by the Home Rule Movement and its supporters. These bags depict Patrick James Smyth, Isaac Butt, and John Francis Maguire. Printed for the sale of tea and other dry goods in Edward Duggan’s Grocer shop, Ballybricken. Also with two plain...
illustration / Search Night
Print, coloured, entitled ‘Search Night’, also ‘State Watchmen mistaking honest men for conspirators’. Depicting a group of men hiding documents and escaping as the door is being broken in. Relates to 1798 Rebellion and era.
illustration / Dispatching the Superabundant Population
Print, or engraving, entitled ‘Dispatching the Superabundant Population’. Relates to 1798 Rebellion and era.
illustration / Lord A___ going out in the morning
Print, or engraving, entitled ‘Lord A___ going out in the morning’. Relates to 1798 Rebellion and era.
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Marble plaque, with bronze bust of a male in profile. A sash with shamrock across the shoulder.
illustration / Justice Knifeboard, Hanging a Piper for playing seditious tunes
Print, or engraving, entitled ‘Justice Knifeboard, Hanging a Piper for playing seditious tunes’. Relates to 1798 Rebellion and era.
illustration / Massacre at Emyvale
Print, or engraving, entitled ‘Massacre at Emyvale’. Subtitled ‘Dedicated to the Bible Society of Drogheda’. Relates to 1798 Rebellion and era.
souvenir / The Heroes of 1798, 1898
1798 Commemoration handkerchief, silk, green. Titled ‘The Heroes of 1798’; Lord Edward Fitzgerald as the central figure, with Theobald Wolfe Tone, Henry Joy McCracken, William Orr and Robert Emmet in the four corners, all surrounded by Maid of Erin harps wreaths of shamrocks. A souvenir of the 1798...
prison art / Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
Card box with sliding lid, handcarved of bone. Painted inserts with glass type covers, depicting ladies and gentlemen in Regency style dress. Probably containing set of cards and dominoes made of bone pieces, painted. Made by French prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars, c. 1803-1815. Lid...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. Homestead of John P. Frost, wife and twelve young children, of Ranosmanagher, Six-Mile-Bridge, Co. Clare,...
notice / Public Thanskgiving, 11 Oct 1649
Declaration regarding public thanskgiving for the victories of the English Parliamentary Forces in Ireland, including the taking of Drogheda, 11 October 1649. Cromwellian Wars. Printed by John Field for Edward Husband, printer to the Parliament of England, 1649.
proclamation / Importation of Arms and Ammunition into Ireland, 1881
Printed notice or proclamation on paper, regarding the Importation of Arms and Ammunition into Ireland as per the 'Peace Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1881' pertaining to laws taking effect from the 20th April 1881. Banning the importation of arms and ammunition except through the specified ports. ...print / The Siege of Enniskillen, 4th Feb. 1592
Map or plan of ‘The Siege of Enniskillen Castle, 4th Feb. 1592’ by John Thomas. Black and white print, copied from the original in the British Museum Cotton Augustus I. ii. 39. Original dates from 1594. Reprinted by the War Office, London, under Colonel Sir H. James.
journal / Hue and Cry, 1867-72
Hue and Cry newspaper. Police Gazette. 17 copies, dating from between 1867 and 1872. Some Fenian related articles. Dates - 25 May 1866, 5 June 1866, 12 June 1866, 27 September 1872, 1 October 1872, 4 October 1872, 8 October 1872, 11 October 1872, 15 October 1872, 18 October 1872, 22 October 1872,...
news sheet / Royal Irish Constabulary, 1867
Royal Irish Constabulary official document. A return of the members of the Constabulary who were rewarded, dismissed, disrated and fined in the six months to the end of December 1867.
shell / Tricolour & Stars and Stripes
Artillery shell, black, with the Irish tricolour and American stars and stripes flags, crossed, over a sunburst, painted on one side. Possibly a Fenian or IRB commemoration piece.
photograph / Catholic Murals, Belfast, 1981
Catholic Murals, Belfast, 1981 Collection of photographic slides, colour. Murals, Northern Ireland, 1980s. Depicting wall murals and various scenes in Belfast and Derry, 1981-1989. Photography by Ciaran McGolden, Belfast. Photography commissioned by Oliver Snoddy of the NMI in 1987.
photograph / Catholic Murals, Belfast, 1981
Catholic Murals, Belfast, 1981 Collection of photographic slides, colour. Murals, Northern Ireland, 1980s. Depicting wall murals and various scenes in Belfast and Derry, 1981-1989. Photography by Ciaran McGolden, Belfast. Photography commissioned by Oliver Snoddy of the NMI in 1987.