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.
Carlow Rifles mess plate / Carlow Rifles, c.1880
Carlow Militia mess plate c.1880, with green border and impressed on back with Worcester post – 1871 mark. Regimental device of crowned garter with the legend CARLOW RIFLES enclosing LXX all within a shamrock wreath on the rim of the plate.
certificate / Michael Murphy, Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
World War I commemorative scroll in memory of Rifleman Michael Murphy, Royal Irish Rifles. Mounted on a card and fixed by 4 pins from wooden back to glass front. Chain for suspension.
photograph / Royal Artillery, c. 1900
Royal Artillery group. Large mounted photograph showing four rows outside a barrack wall in Ireland, c. 1900.
postcard photograph / Lt. John C. Maguire
Lt. John C. Maguire. Postcard studio photo of showing him ¾ length in uniform without cap. Maguire was the youngest officer then commissioned at 19 years of age.
postcard photograph / Lt. John C. Maguire
Lt. John C. Maguire. Postcard photo of showing him with another officer, full length, uniformed at a barrack wall.
invitation / Lt. John C. Maguire
Lt. John C. Maguire wedding invitation card 1926, with one newspaper notice re wedding and a later one recording his death (“ex-Lieut. National Army”) in 1941.reproduction / David Bates Military Academy, 1798
David Bates/Military Academy. Rocque's map endorsed to show properties of Bates in Summerhill, Dublin in 1798 when he was in financial difficulties.
presentation cup / Captain S.V. Morgan, Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
Royal Irish Rifles Presentation cup. Silver with Antrim Rifle Corps / 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles crest engraved on one face and "To Lieut. & Adjutant S.V. Morgan from Lieut. Col. W.G.C. McCammond in grateful recognition of valuable services rendered to the Battalion 1914-17". The two handled...
photograph album / Private Joseph McEnroe, Royal Irish Fusiliers, WWI
WWI photograph album kept by Private Joseph McEnroe, 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. and sometime prisoner of war. Including: a photograph of himself as P.O.W. at Gettorf 1918; of his brother Thomas, wounded at Ypres, at Manchester Hospital with two others; seven picture postcards of Gettorf...
campaign medal / 88th Regiment
88th Regiment. Struck medal, bar and ribbon 1.3" diameter. Obverse shows Hibernia seated next to a Maid of Erin harp, extending laurel wreath. Reverse bears '88' on top separating crosses laurel sprays deeply engraved, LIVE /MIVELLE / VITORRIA / FUENTES DE / ON OR / PYERENNEES / TOULOUSE / ORTHES....
badge / Battle of the Boyne, 300th Anniversary
Badge, gilt and enaamel; in commemoration the 300th Anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, 1990.
badge / Ulster
Badge, in the shape of the six counties comprising the political North of Ireland; white enamel background with a red cross through the centre, with the Red Hand of Ulster within a six-pointed star, crowned. Note attached - 'old badge, lost and found Bridge St. city centre'.
badge / The Spirit of Freedom
Irish Militant Republican Badge; with a golden bird carrying a machine gun on a green background. 'The Spirit of Freedom'. Enamelled metal. One of three badges bought at a Republican Stall, at Beechmount, Falls Road, Belfast, on the Saturday before the 75th. Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916,...
badge / Easter Rising, commemoration
Badge, representation of the G.P.O., Dublin, in flames, and a combatant with a tricolour flag in foreground. With the words 'i gcuimhne aiséirí' dividing 19 / 16. One of three badges bought at a Republican Stall, at Beechmount, Falls Road, Belfast, on the Saturday before the 75th. Anniversary of...
photograph / British Army, 1914
Photograph of a group of British Army officers in a field in front of a field artillery gun. A dog lying at their feet. c. 1914.
buttonstick /
One of two brass buttonsticks with long opening in the centre. Used to clean uniform buttons. Inscribed "Smith & Wright Button and Ornament Manufacturers and Contractors, Birmingham" and "FF"
buttonstick /
One of two brass buttonsticks with long opening in the centre. Used to clean uniform buttons. Inscribed "Smith & Wright Button and Ornament Manufacturers and Contractors, Birmingham" and "FF"
insignia / City of Dublin Volunteers, insignia
Insignia of the City of Dublin Volunteers. Used by the Volunteer Reserve 1929-35.
medal / Volunteers of Ireland, c.1780
Silver medal for Bravery to the Volunteers of Ireland c.1780. The obverse has a Maid of Erin harp between a crossed laurel spray tied with a double ribbon. On scrolls the following inscriptions Concitat ad Arma and below Volunteers of Ireland. On the reverse the following inscription: Conferr’d by...