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.
badge / Unionist, 1892
Unionist Badge, 1892. white silk, 2.1 x 3.2 inches with red borders on sides and .1 inch deep fringe at bottom, suspended from a prin on the back of a cast bronze device of a crown over a parallelogram, 2.6 x .2 inches with the slogan 'Union Is Strength', which is over another parallelogram, 2.1 x...
dance ticket / Grand Orange Hall, 1908
Orange Lodge Dance Ticket, Dublin 1908. 11.3 x 8.8 cm. White, printed black for dance at Grand Orange Hall, 10 Rutland Square on 2 October 1908 under auspices of Rising Star of the East True Blues, L.O.L. 108.
marching drum / No Surrender
Orange Lodge or Unionist drum, Dublin early 20th century. Wooden shell only 22 inches wide 26.5 inches in diameter, with a 3 inch painted wooden band all round on either side. On 14.5 inches deep of the surface the English Royal Arms under 'No Surrender'. Immediately above this, with 5 inches...
coatee / Irish National Foresters, c. 1877
Tail coat of the Irish National Foresters, about 1877 and following. Green with turned back collars decorated with sequins in trefoil shape. Each sleeve has a gold thread chevron. One small bronze button by Comyns & Co. on left shoulder (no epaullettes) and 5 large buttons by same maker on coat...
signet ring / Captain John McCafferty, 1866
Signet ring, presented to Captain John McCafferty, the Invincible leader, by the Detroit Fenians, 1866. Gold closing daguerrotype or tinted photograph of the Fenian leader. Inscribed on top 'Erin I Love Thee and Thy Patriots'. Inscribed underneath 'Presented to Captain John McCafferty I.R.B. by...
processional sash / Irish National Foresters
Irish National Foresters sash. Green poplin with applied border of gold shamrocks bearing on one side the sunburst over the letters 'PCR' over the harp, over the letters 'INF' all embroidered in gold. PCR stands for Past Chief Ranger and sashes of this type were presented to outgoing Branch Chief...
bust / Charles Stewart Parnell
Parnell Plaque. Pewter, diestruck (handpainted). Bust of Parnell in high relief looking to right. In raised letters around above, 'The National Irish Land League of America' and below, 'Charles S. Parnell'. Maker's name on back 'Amos-Smorh Co/Chicopee, Mass.'. Elliptical. Diameters: 4 x 6 inches....
seal impression / Fenian Seal
Wax Impression of Fenian Seal. Green, depicting the letters IR on a sunburst emerging from behind clouds. Seal said to have been used by James Stephens on all communications to John O'Mahony. The seal was brought to USA by John Brady.
drawing / Fenian Seal
Illustration in black ink of the wax impression of Fenian Seal (a). Wax seal is green, depicting the letters IR on a sunburst emerging from behind clouds. Seal said to have been used by James Stephens on all communications to John O'Mahony. The seal was brought to USA by John Brady.
watch case / Henry Grattan
Watch case said to have belonged to Henry Grattan. Gilt copper and black laquered finish.
hymn book / Elizabeth Grattan
Elizabeth Grattan's Hymn Book. Red leather cover with name in gilt letters. Printed by Oliver & Boyd Edinburgh for editor J. McVity Liaburn in 1809. 4th edition.
painting / Gladstone, Home Rule Bill, 1883
Print depicting William Gladstone introducing the 1893 Home Rule Bill. 21 x 12.5 inches framed, with list of the M.P.'s portrayed on the back of the frame.
cup / 1798 Commemoration
'98 Memorial Cup, of the type produced for the 1798 Rebellion commemorations in 1898. Domestic ware with a wreath of shamrock in brown around the rim and '98' over crossed flags (the one on left having a shamrock, the other a harp) repeated three times around the body. Historic breaks and...
painting / Charles Stewart Parnell
Portrait painting of Charles Stewart Parnell. Reverse oil painting on glass framed, unsigned. Probably about 1890.
letter / Michael O'Brien
Photostats of letter of Michael O'Brien to his brother, 14 Nov. 1867. 2pp. of the Manchester Martyr's letter marked 'Before Restoration'; 2pp. of a cleaner more legible version; and 1 pp. of the letter in typescript.
resource / Famine Reports, 1845
Famine Records, 1845. Comprising an extract from Walks After Wild Flowers (1852); 'The Potato in Europe (1565-1845)' - a tabulation of use and disease; maps showing extent of blight in U.S. and Canada 1843-45 and in Europe in 1845. Constabulary Circular re information on 1845 crop failure;...resource / Home Rule
Pall Mall Gazette, 20 Jan. 1886. pp 3/4 containing references to Gladstone on Home Rule and Article on Home Rule for Wales.resource / T.M. Healy vs. J.J. O'Shee trial
The Irish Times, 15 Jan. 1970. Section of pp. 9/10 with excerpt of trial T.M. Healy vs. J.J. O'Shee.resource / Land League action, 1888
One page of The Guardian newspaper, 4 July, 1888. Letters page, including a letter to the Editor from Henry Stuart Fagan of Great Cressington Rectory, Norfolk, re the reductions to the rent of the land of a Mrs Morony, landowner, and discussing the high rents, evictions and the boycotting of her...