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.
 
photograph / Marshal MacMahon
Irish Ambulance Corps, photograph of a Volunteer (possibly Marshal McMahon). Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871). Papers, Irish Ambulance Corps, three certificates for Volunteers from the Irish Ambulance Service of France. (Franco-Prussian War 1870 - 1871) - 144.1....
 
spur / English, 19th c
Pair of spurs, brass. Probably English or made to an English 19th century pattern.
 
letter / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1776
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, 14th March 1776
 
document / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, Dublin 27th November. Probably circa 1770s-1790s.
 
document / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1797
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, May 15th 1797.
 
letter / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1797
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, to Captain Fitzsimon, 3rd Regiment Irish Brigade, in Waterford, from Carrick-on-Suir, 12 July, 1797.
 
letter / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1792
Letter relating to James Fitzsimon of the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, 1792.
 
letter / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1782
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, 1782.
 
letter / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 8 July 1793
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, Dublin, 8 July, 1793.
 
letter / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1794
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, London, 12 March, 1794.
 
attendence register / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1795
Attendence register for Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, 1795.
 
letter / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, 23 September. No year, probably 1770s to 1790s.
 
document / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1796
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, 8 April 1796.
 
document / Dillon Regiment, Irish Brigade, 1796
Letter relating to the Dillon Regiment of the Irish Brigade, London, 7 March, 1796.
 
prayer book / Laurence Lowry, Royal Artillery, Jamaica, 1838
Prayer book, 'The Key to Heaven', belonging to gunner Laurence Lowry, of the 3rd Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Artillery, stationed in the West Indies, 1838. Inscribed by hand in ink on the inside, 'Laurence Lowry, Gunner, Rl. Artillery, Port Royal, Jamaica, West Indies, March 1838'.
 
Bible / Laurence Lowry, Royal Artillery, West Indies, 1839
Bible belonging to a gunner, Laurence Lowry, with 3rd Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Artillery, West Indies, 1839. Inscribed.
 
letter / General Alexander Rochfort, 1906
Permission to General Alexander Rochfort to wear Bulgarian Insignia. No. 383/. On Buckingham Palace headed paper, 1 December 1906
 
letter / General Alexander Rochfort
Grant of Companionship to General Alexander Rochfort, for the Order of Saint Michael and St. George. Edward the Seventh.
 
engraving / Troupes Francais, 1816
Coloured picture - French Cavalry Soldier, Garde Royale, Trompette des Lanciers, 1816. Le Canu, Rue St. Jacques.