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 / Lord Kitchener's Counsel to Soldiers
Postcard photograph, Field Marshall Earl Kitchener. With text Lord Kitchener's Counsel to Soldiers. Rotary Photographic Series. 68D. Printed in England. Connected to Charles William Sullivan.
photograph / Highlanders Pipe Themselves Back from the Trenches
Postcard photograph, 'Highlanders Pipe Themselves Back from the Trenches'. 'Our gallant Highlanders, who love to chrage the enemy to the skirl of the pipes, are fond of playing their national music in lighter mood, as seen in the picture'. Daily Mail Battle Pictures. Official War Photographs...
photograph / The King's Message to his Army
Postcard photograph, H.M. King George V. With text The King's Message to his Army. Rotary Photographic Series. 9577U. Printed in England. Connected to Charles William Sullivan.
photograph / Ypres After Two Years of War
Postcard photograph, 'Ypres After Two Years of War'. 'Tourists who knew Ypres and its Rue de Lille in the days of peace can best appreciate the awfulness of its fate in the war'. Daily Mail Battle Pictures. Official War Photographs Series. Crown copyright reserved Series IX, no. 68. Passed by...
photograph / H.M.S Cochrane
Postcard photograph, steamship, H.M.S Cochrane. Used, addressed to Mother, dated 13 August 1911. The Melcombe Series. Photographed and published by Edwin H. Seward, 13 Turton Street, Weymouth, England. Printed in England. Possibly connected to Charles William Sullivan.
brace / Charles W. Sullivan, WWI
Metal leg brace, used by Lt. Charles William of the South Irish Horse and Royal Irish Fusiliers. Injured while in France during World War I. After the war he was given an army house at 27 Victoria Road Clontarf. Died 1954.
ticket / South Dublin Union Poor Law Officers Association Ball
South Dublin Union Poor Law Officers Association Ball Ticket
postcard / An Irish Home Sweet Home
Postcard ‘An Irish Home Sweet Home’ early design of c20 years earlier late print 1930’s/1940’s
map / Belgium, Sheet 36a
General Staff map Aire, Belgium. Sheet 36a.
photograph / Charles Sullivan Williams
Photograph, group of British Army soldiers, connected to Charles William Sullivan .
photograph / Charles Sullivan Williams
Photograph, studio portrait, Charles William Sullivan.
1914-15 Star / McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, WWI
World War I medal, 1914-15 Star, British Army, of Private John McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, no. 20111.
Victory Medal / McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, WWI
World War I Allied Victory Medal, British Army, of Private John McClelland, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, no. 20111.
photograph / Wire pulling-Signals Style
Photograph caption ‘Wire pulling-Signals Style’ Two Irish Army soldiers wearing steel helmets with nets and foliage suck into walking alongside a hedge laying communication wire with wire being pulled on two handled cart. Emergency Period. Stamped ‘Irish Press Copyright’
photograph / Corporal Michael Whelan, WWI
Photograph of Corporal Michael Whelan, with members of his family: two women and two men. WWI. Michael Whel no. 6576, of the Royal Irish Rifles, was killed in action in June 1916. At the time Corporal Whelan had been in the army for 12 months. His parents lived at 1 Lower Glengariffe Parade, Dublin.letter / O'Malley, R.I.R., 1885
Draft letter, Chief of Staff, recommending 2nd Class Staff Sergeant Patrick O'Malley, 2785, of the 18th Royal Irish Regiment to commissioned rank. His name had been omitted from a previous list of sergeants being recommended for commission as the officer recommending him, Major Nugent, had been...
Trench Art / Royal Irish Regiment, WWI
Base of a Briitish made 18 pounder shell fashioned into a cap bearing the badge of the Royal Irish Regiment.
card / Bridget White, 1946
Ration card for Flour & Bread, 1946. Belonged to Miss Bridget White of 100 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin. Used. Name of Retailer is Farm at Way 69 Upper Dorset Street. Filled in and marked each day from 18th January to 14th June. Post-Emergency Period.
postcard / German POW camp, 1942
Christmas card from Private Peter Cleary to Wife from German POW camp. Card illustrated Thomas Burke, PoW at Stalag XXA, and depicts Father Christmas and four smiling soldiers. Dated 00 January 1942. Standard issue (printed form).