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.
medal / 1903 Commemoration
1903 Commemoration Medal. OBV: Crowned head of King looking to left. Around above, 'Edwardus VII Rex Imperator'. Signed at truncation, D + S. REV: A draped female figure holding a wreath in her outstretched left hand - her right raised in welcome - with a harp at her feet, standing at a pier head....
commemorative mug / Orange Order
Orange Order mug. 12.2 cm. high, 12.2 cm. diam., with portrait of King William III on horseback, and two large panels of masonic and astrological symbols and Orange Order Slogans. Probably Staffordshire, late 18th centruy.
portrait / Charles Stewart Parnell
Portrait in silk of Charles Stewart Parnell. By Thomas Stevens of Coventry. Mounted, glazed and framed in gold painted oval wood and plaster frame.
badge / 1798 Cenentary
1798 Cenentary Badge. Enamelled bronze. Circular 2.4 cm. diam., with ring for suspension. OBV: A cross, the limbs in blue enamel with a trefoil in green at the centre of the intersection. Behind the cross, pikes with extend at the point into the border formed on an inner bronze circle. On red field...
processional sash / Ancient Order of Foresters
Sash of Ancient Order of Foresters. 6.6 cm. wide silk. Red field with a green stripe on either side and a white one in the center; the stripes, 4 cm. wide. Gold tassels. Embroidered on one arm of sash 'PCR' (Past Chief Ranger) over an eye, over a crest, over A.O.F., over the globe, surrounded by a...
photograph / Joseph Gough, A.O.F.
Pprtrait photograph of Joseph Gough of the Ancient Order of Foresters. 6 x 10 cm. photograph by William Lawrence, Dublin. Gough was owner of the sash numbered HH:1971.8resource / 1798 Centenary handkerchief
Photograph of 1798 Centenary handkerchief. Showing pictures of Tone, Orr, Emmet, and McCracken with Lord FitzGerald in centre.
medal / Dublin Boy's Brigade, 1919
Dublin Boy's Brigade Medal, 1919. Silver, inscribed on back 21st. D.C.B.B. Drill Down Junior. 1919. A.D. Buchanan. Stamped with anchor, lion passant, date letter and maker's initials, RC.resource / Certificate of Protection, 1798
1798 Certificate of Protection. Xeroxcopy of printed form of certificate and oath to be prepared and taken by people who surrendered arms and declared loyalty during the Rising.resource / Lion Monument, Lucrene, Begium, 1821
Photograph of Lion Monument in Lucrene, Begium, 1821, it was completed in 1833 to the memory of the Swiss Guards killed defending the Tuileries in Parish 10 August, 1792.
postcard / Henry Grattan, statue
Henry Grattan. Postcard size photograph - mount - of statue of in College Green Dublin. Taken c.1905.
commemorative medal / Wolfe Tone
Wolfe Tone commemorative medal, c. 1930. 2.8 cm. diameter, bronze. Reverse - blank. Obverse - bust of Tone to right over 'Wolfe Tone' with 'Commemoration' around below. All within the legend around above, 'Fianna Fail', around below, 'Break the Connection'.
medal / Masonic Orphan School
Masonic Orphan School Medal. REV: blank. OBV: on a raised border around 'Masonic Orphan Schools Dublin', with a treble trefoil at the terminal. Within, a seated female figure holding a naked baby on her lap with her left arm, her right resting on the shoulder of a standing female child who is...
illustration / Young Irelanders, 1848
Commemorative print, black and white, with illustrations of the Young Ireland leaders of the 1848 Rebellion - Thomas Davis, John Mitchel, William Smith O'Brien, John Dillon, Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Francis Meagher. With their birth and death dates. Also illustrated is a scene, dated 1847, of...
photograph / Fontenoy Visit, 1905
Fontenoy 1905. Full plate photograph of group at Tournai in 1905 on occasion of Irish visit to Fontenoy.
coin / Maltese 30 Tari Piece
Maltese 30 Tari Piece, 1757. Silver mounted as a brooch within a trophy of arms (helmet, sword, axe, spears, mace, etc.).
album / Flemish Heroes, Yser
Flemish Heroes of the Yser. Album of photographs relating to inauguration (1930) of national monument to, including sculpture by Joe English (Waterford origin).resource / Patrick Egan
Patrick Egan. Full plate photograph of Patrick Egan. Taken in New York in 1901.
photograph / Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt at Freemantle. Full plate print photograph showing him seated outside what had been a temporary prison for Fenians.