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.
postcard / Ruines D'Ypres, WWI
Ruines D'Ypres. Souvenir booklet of photographs of the devastation there during the 1914 - 1918 war.
postcard / Souvenir D'Ypres, WWI
Souvenir D'Ypres. Souvenir booklet of photographs of Ypres before the destruction of World War I. Souvenir de la Belgique - cartes-vues choisies. Edition: Hotel Splendide et Britannique, Grand 'Place, Ypres.
cap badge / Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, WWI
Cap badge of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. First World War. Bronze.
cap badge / Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, WWI
Cap badge of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces. First World War. Bronze.
ring / Nurse Morony, c. 1914
Nurse's ring; bimetal. Worn by the sister of Miss Matilda Isobel Morony; a Nurse Morony. c. 1914.
painting / William Shrewbridge, ensign 25th Regiment, 1804
Miniature of infantry officer in black wooden frame. Red faced black uniform. Letters WS on back (William Shrewbridge ensign 25th Regiment 1804) c. 1810. (DB 1460).
portrait / Joseph Shrewbridge 1778-1796
Miniature painted portrait of Royal Irish Artillery officer Joseph Shrewbridge, 1778-1796 (ob.) in black wooden frame. (DB 1461). A Captain in 1783.
painting / 69th Regiment c. 1800
Miniature of officer of 69th Regiment c. 1800. Uniform red faced blue with belt plate, gorget and sword hilt showing.
bugle / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.attachment / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.attachment / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.attachment / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.attachment / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.attachment / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.attachment / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.attachment / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.case / Royal Irish Constabulary
Trumpet from RIC band in its wooden case. Some small sections missing. Brass. The mouth engraved with RIC, the Parisian maker's particulars and the name of the London agent (Arthur Chappell). Inscription rubbed.
portrait / General John Millet Hamerton
Oil painting of General John Millet Hamerton CB. Oil painting of Hamerton, depicting 34 length and wearing the CB badge, the Egyptian medal and his Waterloo medal.
Waterloo medal / General John Millet Hamerton, Waterloo, 1815
General John Millet Hamerton's Waterloo medal. Obverse: Head of Regent to left, crowned with laurel. Around, on left, GEORGE, P. on right, REGENT. Signed under shoulder, T. WYON JUN. Reverse: Victory seated to left with wings outspread over a plinth inscribed WATERLOO which in turn is over the date...