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.
ticket / Home Rule Demonstration, 1888
Home Rule Demonstration ticket, 1888. For a demonstration in Leinster Hall on 2nd February 1888.
ticket / Home Rule, 1890
Parnellite ticket, to the meeting of the nationalists of Dublin, 1890. Home Rule Movement. For a demonstration in the Round Room, Rotunda on 10th December 1890. Lord Mayor to preside, Parnell will be present. Overflow ticket.
card / Loyal National Repeal Association, 1843
Loyal National Repeal Association membership card, belonging to Mr Patrick Griffin, dated 4th July 1843. Signed Thomas Mathew Ray (print) as Secretary. Printed in Crow Street, Dublin, probably by Holbrooke.
card / Loyal National Repeal Association, 1844
Loyal National Repeal Association membership card, belonging to Mr Patrick Magee, having paid one shilling subscription. Dated 24 June 1844. Signed Thomas Mathew Ray (print) as Secretary.
card / National Association, 1840
National Association of Ireland, to Obtain Full and Prompt Justice, or Repeal. Membership card, belonging to Mr James Magee, dated 13th July 1840, with seal impression of Thomas M. Ray's monogram. Card numbered 247.
stick / Thomas Ray
Walking stick, wood with an ivory plate on the handle, of Thomas M. Ray. Engraved with the year '1842'.
letter / Thomas Higgins, Galway, 1903
Michael Davitt, hologram letter. To Thomas Higgins of Tuam, Co. Galway, 1903. From Dalkey, Feb. 28, 1903. Signed Michael Davitt. The Land Converence Report and the encouragement of "intelligent discussion" of it. Davitt discourages anything which will weaken popular support for the Irish Party....
badge / Thomas Moore, 1812
Thomas Moore, badge, gold and enamel, 1812. Circular, concave plate of gold: on the concave, side, or front, held in position by a raised rim which is soldered to the plate around is circumference , are (1) a band, belt, or circlet of gold and enamel and (2) a gold central plate which overlies the...
commemorative bowl / 1798 Rebellion
1798 Rebellion commemorative sugar bowl, white pottery glazed with decoration, 1898. Evidently produced and sold in 1898 to coincide with with the centenary celebrations. Transfer printed design of a harp on the strings of which appear the figure 98, crossed pikes behind the harp and sprays of...
commemorative medal / Daniel O'Connell, Birth Centenary, 1875
Daniel O'Connell, medal commemorating the centenary of his birth, 1875. Medal, White Medal, Obverse only by William Woodhouse, 1847. Obv: Head of Daniel O'Connelll in profile, looking to right; signed W W below. Around Daniel O'Connell, M.P. Born August 6th 1775, Died May 1847. Rev: Greyhound and...
box / Thomas Davis, 1836
Davis, Thomas, Osborne, Prize Medal, Silver, Hand Engraved. Awarded to in 1836. Obv: Two laurel wreaths extending around from knot of ribbon below; and the hand engraved inscription TRIN COLL DUB PROPTER ARTES LIBERALES FELICITER EXCULTAS. Rev: In centre hand engraved Davis, Thomas, around,...
button / Thomas Davis / Repeal of the Union
Repeal Button. Brass, about 1840. Incised around GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, REPEAL OF THE UNION.# In relief is a harp below a five-pointed crown; a shamrock on either side of it; below, AGITATE. No mark on back. Written in ink on the piece of paper in which button wrapped on receipt, and which had, in...
note / Thomas Davis
Note written on bottom of thin paper, written by his sister of Thomas Davis, authenticating his Repeal button. 'Poor Tom Davis' Repeal button, which he my darling brother used to wear, but soon put down the use of by most sensible persons'.
lithograph / A Gentleman of the Irish Volunteer Infantry, 1796
Lithograph: A Gentleman of the Irish Volunteer Infantry, 1796. Drawn by T. Cassidy, lithographed by C. Henecy at 18 Suffolk Street and published by William Allen at 32 Dame Street, Dublin. Depicts a standing figure, holding a musket. Uniform consists of a red coat, white waistcoat and breeches,...
print / A Gentleman of the Irish Volunteer Cavalry, 1796
Photostat. Lithograph. T. Cassidy del. / C. Henecy Sc. & A Gentleman of the Irish Volunteer Cavalry, 1796 & Published by Wm. Allen, No. 32 Dame St. and C. Henecy, No. 18, Suffolk Street, Dublin. A mounted figure, wearing a helmet and holding a drawn sword. Uncoloured original. Yeomanry Cavalry,...
badge / Dublin Whiteners' Trade Union, 1891
Cloth badge commemorative of death of Parnell, issued by the Dublin Whiteners' Trade Union, 1891. Poplin panel, white, with green silk band, 3/5 of an inch deep, sewn to the top. Portrait of Parnell under the print.
print / Irish Volunteer, 1780
Irish Volunteer, 1780. Photostat of a woodcut. Badly drawn figure, standing, with musket. Behind him a drum and tent. In right background a tower with flag flying. No artist's or printer's name and no identifying features, but almost certainly intended for an Irish Volunteer about 1780. 12 x 8.75...
envelope / Charles Stuart Parnell, 1882
Handwrittten letter from W.C. Angus, a Scottish Radical to Charles Stuart Parnell, dated 1882. Addressed to Parnell at Kimainham Gaol, from an address at 159 Queen Street, Glasgow, January 10, 1882. He sympathises with the motives of Parnell and the Irish Party and encloses a series of...
statue / Daniel O'Connell
O'Connell, Daniel glazed pottery figure, Staffordshire, coloured by Sampson Smith about 1875. Full length figure, standing, right hand on lip, left hand resting on pillar. Shown wearing white pantaloons, white waistcoat with maroon buttons and decorated with maroon dots, arranged in threes, black...