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.
illustration / Uniform
Illustration or drawing, watercoloured, of uniform (green jacket and grey trousers), by F. Glenn Thompson. Possibly a member of the Irish National Guard.
cigarette lighter / World War II
World War II Cigarette Lighter. Stamped at base "Victory/May 1945/U.L./Made in England". Found by Mr R. Holzapfel on Iron Kerry Mountain peak, while mountaineering July 1982.
recruitment poster / Germany's threat to Ireland!, WWI
Recruitment poster, World War I period. 'Germany's threat to Ireland! The Germans have issued their orders: The Irish Seas are to be own with Mines. Irish Ships are to be sunk. Irish Men, Women and Children are to be sent to their doom without warning. Ireland's Food Supply is to be cut...
recruitment poster / What Have You Done For Ireland?
British Army recruitment poster, World War I. A Typographical poster, letterpress printed in green ink on buff paper. It reads as a poem entitled 'What have You done for ireland?' and is contained in linear border with stylised floral corner motifs. Poem (3 verses), within border, reads - "What...
/ Cardinal Logue and the War, WWI
Recruitment poster, c. 1914-1918. "I Believe Belgium and the treatment of its People will seal the doom of the Kaiser and His Power". Irishmen! Your help is needed to seal Germany's doom, and to save Ireland from Belgium's fate. Join an Irish Regiment Today'. The poster combines serif and...
/ The Man to be Pitied, WWI
A typographical poster, letterpress, printed in blue ink on buff paper. The headlines reading 'The Man to be Pitied' and 'Join an Irish Regiment Today'. A Central Section surrounded by a border describes the lot of the fit man who does not enlist. "He knows what his Country thinks of the Men Who...
poster / An Appeal to gallant Irishmen. WWI
Recruitment poster, 1914-18. Between titles, reads - "Do you hear the voice of heroic Belgium calling for your aid ? Do you know that Cathedrals and Churches have been violated in Belgium, and that Ministers of Religion have been driven from their Churches by the Germans ? Do you know that if...
photograph / 8th King's Royal Rifle Corps, Carlow Militia, 1907
Group photograph of Subalterns 8th King's Royal Rifle Corps, Carlow Militia, 1907. Left to right - 2 Ferrier, 2nd Lieutenant Thomas, Lieutenant Fitzmaurice and 2nd Lieutenant Muikett (?).
photograph / 8th King's Royal Rifle Corps, Carlow Militia, 1907
Group photograph of Subalterns 8th King's Royal Rifle Corps, Carlow Militia, 1907. Left to right - 2 Ferrier, 2nd Lieutenant Thomas, Lieutenant Fitzmaurice and 2nd Lieutenant Muikett (?).
handbill / Belfast trade boycott, 1921
Handbill, listing the companies in Ireland, England and Scotland blacklisted during the Belfast trade boycott, dated April 1921. The list includes and supplements the original issue.
photograph / IRA bunker, Killakee
Photograph of activities at an IRA arms bunker in the area around Killakee, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. c. Truce period. Group of men training with Lewis machine guns.
photograph / IRA bunker, Killakee
Photograph of activities at an IRA arms bunker. Killakee, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. c. Truce period. Group of 39 men standing on the steps of the ruins of Killakee House, un-uniformed, armed with rifles. Arms including 30 Lee Enfield rifles, two Lewis machine guns, four Thompson machine guns, ten...
photograph / IRA bunker, Killakee
Photograph of activities at an IRA arms bunker. Killakee, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin. c. Truce period. Group of 39 men standing on the steps of the ruins of Killakee House, un-uniformed, armed with rifles. Arms including 30 Lee Enfield rifles, two Lewis machine guns, four Thompson machine guns, ten...
photograph / Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers, c. 1914
Group photograph of the Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers c. 1914. Photograph taken by Keogh Brothers of 75 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin.
photograph / Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers, c. 1914
Photograph of the Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers c. 1914. On parade in a yard. Photograph taken by Keogh Brothers of 75 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin.
photograph / Irish Volunteers, c. 1914
Photograph of a group of Irish Volunteers c. 1914. Group, names underneath in pencil - O'Donnell, Unknown, McCabe, Mcgarvey, Caffrey, Comlica, Meade, Geason, Meade, Carolan, Tobin, Flanagan, Tobin, Griffon, Meade, Byrne, Cuffe, Carrick, Tobin, Sullivan, Dolan, Walsh, McHugh, Nolan. Taken at The...
photograph / Lt W.J. Batty, Tank Corps, 1921
Lieutenant W.J. Batty, in Tipperary, 1921. In the uniform of the Tank Corps, 17th Battalion. Selection of photographs taken by Lt WJ Batty of the 17th Battalion Tank Corps during his service in Ireland 1920/21.
photograph / Lt W.J. Batty, Tank Corps, 1920/21
A Medium ‘A’ tank in Dublin No. A317, with British Officer posing on top. Selection of photographs taken by Lt WJ Batty of the 17th Battalion Tank Corps during his service in Ireland 1920/21.
photograph / Lt W.J. Batty, Tank Corps, 1920/21
Three Medium B tanks, taken in Limerick. British Officer shown on top of one. Taken in a barracks yard. Selection of photographs taken by Lt WJ Batty of the 17th Battalion Tank Corps during his service in Ireland 1920/21.