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.
 


membership card / Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1845
Membership card, Loyal National Repeal Association, March 1845. Made out to Mr Peter McDermod, 10 March 1845. Signed Thomas Mathew Ray (print) as Secretary. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848. HH:1940.24.22 - membership...
 

membership card / Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1845
Membership card for Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1845. Made out to Mr James Magee, having enrolled to Repealers, 29 December 1845. Printed in black and showing a central map of Ireland flanked on either side by ribbon-like devices bearing the words 'God Save the Queen' and 'Ireland...
 

membership card / Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1845
Membership card, Loyal National Repeal Association, 1845. Made out to Mr Thomas Kelly, 21 July 1845. Signed Thomas Mathew Ray (print) as Secretary. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848. HH:1940.24.24 - membership card,...
 


membership card / Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1845
Membership card, Loyal National Repeal Association, 1845. Blank example. Signed (print) by Thomas Mathew Ray as Secretary. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848. HH:1940.24.26 - membership card, Loyal National Repeal...
 


membership card / Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1847
Membership card, Loyal National Repeal Association, 1847. Signed (print) Thomas Mathew Ray as Secretary. Blank example.
 


membership card / Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1847
Membership card, Loyal National Repeal Association, 1847. Signed (print) Thomas Mathew Ray as Secretary. Blank example. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848. HH:1940.24.28 - membership card, Loyal National Repeal...
 


membership card / Loyal National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1848
Membership card, Loyal National Repeal Association, 1848. Signed (print) Thomas Mathew Ray as Secretary. Blank example. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848. HH:1940.24.29 - membership card, Loyal National Repeal...
 

membership card / Precursor Society, 1830s
Membership card, Precursor Society, 1830s.
 


membership card / Volunteers of 1782, 1844
Membership card of the Volunteers of 1782, blank example, 1844 HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848. HH:1940.24.30 - membership card, Saoirseánaigh a 1782, 1844.
 


dinner card / Volunteers of 1782, 1845
Card or ticket for dinner at the Rotundo, Volunteers of 1782, or 1782 Club, 27 November 1845.
 

membership card / Precursor Society, 1830s
Membership card for the General Committee of the Precursor Society to Procure from the Imperial Parliament Justice for Ireland. Blank example, 1830s. Signed Thomas Mathew Ray (print) as Secretary. Wax seal in bottom left corner. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National...
 

membership card / National Repeal Association of Ireland, 1840
Membership card, National Association (Repeal) 1840. Blank example, with the signature T.M. Ray as Secretary.
 

membership card / National Association, Repeal, 1840
Membership card, National Association of Ireland, Repeal, 1840. Blank example.
 

permit / Reform Registry Meeting, 1840
Ticket or card with permission to enter Reform Registry Meeting, Dublin, 10th January 1840.
 


permit / Clontarf Repeal Banquet, 1843
Permission to enter (ticket) the Clontarf Repeal Banquet, 9th October 1843. Numbered 1347. Relating to the Monster Meeting in Clontarf. With a red wax seal in bottom right corner. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848....
 


ticket / Mullaghmast Meeting, 1843
Ticket for the platform, at the Mullaghmast Meeting, 1st October 1843. 2 shillings. HH:1940.24.1-31. Collection of cards belonging to the Loyal National Repeal Association etc., from 1830 - 1848. HH:1940.24.9 - ticket for the platform, meeting Mullaghmast 1st October 1843.
 

chess set / O'Connell / Sheil - Richmond Prison, 1844
Chess set, stated to have been used by Daniel O'Connell and R.L. Sheil while imprisoned in Richmond Prison in 1844. 31 pieces in carved ivory; 17 pieces painted/stained red. Screw on bases. All contained in wooden box with sliding lid.
 


/ Daniel O'Connell, 1875
Poplin sash, green, with a gold fringe, worn by a member of the Dublin Coalporters during the O'Connell commemoration marches during the Centenary, 1875.
 


photograph / O'Connell / D'Esterre duel, 1815
Photograph of a pair of pistols used by Daniel O'Connell in his duel with D'Esterre, 1815.
 
