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.
flag / Connolly Column, Spanish Civil War
Flag or banner, painted, of the Connolly Column, Spanish Civil War. 'Eire / Spain Democracy Remembers Her Sons. With names of participants.
Queen's colour / Clare Militia, 1855
Queen's colour, flag. Clare Militia. Silk. The Union Flag of Great Britain and Ireland. A riband of yellow silk bears the title 'Clare Militia' in black lettering, set horizontally across St George's Cross. A Royal Crown, worked in silk, sits above the riband. Similar design on both sides. Red and...
colour / County Carlow Legion (Irish Volunteers)
Circular centrepiece of the banner of the County Carlow Legion, Irish Volunteers, about 1780. Mounted on a square piece of cloth. In the centre is a seated woman, Hibernia, resting her right arm on a Maid of Erin harp, and holding a sheaf in her left hand. In her left is a pole with the cap of...
colour / 11th Galway Regiment
King's colour, flag, of the 11th Galway Regiment. Background is a Union Jack, whilst in the centre is a crest of a circlet of foliage - shamrock, thistle and rose, within which is the letters GR crowned. the scroll above this is inscribed Galway Regiment, underneath is the Roman numeral XI.
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Remains of a flag with a double headed eagle - Dublin made.
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Flag, brown with a cross inside a white circular border.
flag / IRA, 6th Battalion
Irish Defence Forces flag for the old IRA, 6th Battalion.
banner / Irish Women's Temperance Union
Irish Women's Temperance Union flag or banner. Applique. 'United to Win Ireland'. Shamrock in the centre.
banner / Ballynahinch Volunteer, 1779
Flag of the Ballynahinch Volunteers. Rose pink in colour. Scroll above design reads _HINCH VOLUNTEERS. Under scroll is an encircled Maid of Erin harp surmounted by a crown. The background is green whilst the harp, crown and border are gold. To the right of the circle is a spray of shamrock, to the...
colour / Mountmellick Volunteers Colour
Flag of the Mountmellick Volunteers, grey/green in colour (originally blue). Union flag at the top-right corner, the blue parts faded to grey. In the centre of the flag is a raised, circular border, within which is a crowned Maid of Erin harp, circled by a wreath of shamrocks. The scroll underneath...
guidon / Healthfield Cavalry
Guidon of the Healthfield Cavalry, Wexford. Of dark grey-blue silk. In the centre is a harp in gold embroidery, within a garter of yellow silk, inscribed HEALTHFIELD CAVALRY in gold embroidery, all within a shamrock wreath in yellow on brown silk. A crown in gold embroidery and silk above,...
banner / Dublin Chimney Cleaners Society
Flag of the Dublin Chimney Cleaners Society. Silk. Pole with two iron rings. Green and white stripes. On the green part painted inscription 'Operative Chimney Cleaners of Dublin', harp and shamrocks.
flag / British Regiment in Ireland
Flag of a British Regiment in Ireland. Flag of Great Britain with a Maid of Erin harp on a blue background in the centre, crowned.
flag / John Mitchell, 1848
A flag sent by John Mitchel to Mrs O'Brien of Rathgormack, Carrick-on-Suir, in 1848. It is a plain piece of green poplin cloth measuring 4 foot and 9 inches by 4 foot and 2 inches. It is possible that it was intended that a harp should be embroidered onto it. Mrs O'Brien was the aunt of Dr...
banner / Cullen Land League
Land League banner, Cullen, Co. Tipperary. Green banner with gold braid trim and gold fringe along bottom. A sprig of gold shamrock in each bottom corner. Painted. Depicts Hibernia with a round tower and church in the background. Inscribed 'Cullen the right of a people is the land of people'. The...
flag / William Smith O'Brien, 1854
Guidon, pennant, presented to William Smith O'Brien in 1854 on his return to Ireland. In gilt letters on field across, 'Ireland's Truest Patriot W.S.O'Brien M.P.'. Main section green silk, 17.5 inches wide by 34 inches long in furcations. Around a 1.7 inches strip of white. Overlapping green and...
negative / William Smith O'Brien, 1854
Photograph negative of the Guidon presented to William Smith O'Brien, 1854, on his return to Ireland. Main section green silk, 17.5 inches wide by 34 inches long in furcations. Around a 1.7 inches strip of white. Overlapping green and white a 1.2 inches ribbon of decorated gold. All surrounded...
streamer / On to the Workers Republic / Labour, 1930
Labour Party Election Streamer or banner, c.1930. White calico with legend in red and black oil paint reading 'On to the Workers Republic'. Sleeve for poll on either side. Dimensions 280 x 91cm.
streamer / Workers Honour Connolly Every Day / Labour, 1930
Labour Election streamer or banner. c. 1930. White calico with legend in red and black oil paint reading 'Workers Honour Connolly Every Day / With A Fighting Labour Movement'. Dimensions 228 x 80cm.