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.
sword / William III, Battle of the Boyne, 1690
Sword; ivory hilt carved with a hound's head on either end and a recumbent hound between. Lion seated on a hound makes up the handle. Presented by William of Orange to an Irish family, the Bentincts, for William Bentinct's service at the Battle of the Boyne, 1690.
flintlock pistol /
One of a pair of flintlock pistols by James Wilson of Dublin (name on lockplate, place on barrel). Brass mounted. Police number DU-4241. c. 1790-1800.flintlock pistol /
One of a pair of flintlock pistols by James Wilson of Dublin (name on lockplate, place on barrel). Brass mounted. Police number DU-4242. c.1790-1800.
belt pistol / Highland, c. 1750-1770
Highland Scottish belt pistol. Made by Alexander Cameron c. 1730. All metal construction. The gunsmith, Alexander Campbell (died 1790), was initially apprenticed to Flemish / Scottish gunsmith Thomas Caddell at Doune, Perthshire, Scotland. Similar examples of Campbell's work in the Metropolitan...