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.
military stretcher / Magazine Fort
Military stretcher. Dublin, early 20th century, used after the attack on the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park on the Monday of Easter Week, 1916. Stretcher made of wood, cotton and metal. Two wooden poles, rounded at ends to form handles. Linking the poles at each end is a lever-like hinge, iron,...
uniform / Irish Volunteer, Jacob's Biscuit Factory, 1916
Irish Volunteer tunic, 1914. Coat, greyish green cloth. Buttoned down the front with five large brass buttons each bearing the Brian Boru harp. Four pockets, the upper two patch pockets with flap buttoned over with small brass buttons similar to the large buttons down the front. Shoulder straps....
document / Oglaigh na hEireann
Document, typed. Oglaigh na hEireann instruction sheet or manual No. 4, on the handling of chemicals and explosives. On the back is hand written that this was found on the West Road, North Strand area of Dublin, on 30th July 1922 after the explosion at the Four Courts.
rifle / Phibsborough, 1916
Rifle, Italian Vettereli type, dug up from a ditch at Phibsborough, Dublin. Italian Vetterelis were landed at Larne by the Ulster Volunteers in 1914. "1916" cut into the the wood of the butt. Very rusted and degraded from exposure to moisture in ditch. this was likely abandoned by the Volunteers...
covenant / Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant
Parchment, Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant. Printed with handwritten details. To left the red hand of Ulster, below, the Covenant. Signed by Robert James Milles, at Newcastle, Co. Down, 28 September 1912. Underneath, printed, is 'God Save the King'.
tea cup / Pearse Brothers, 1916
One of two cups saucers from St Enda's College, from which Pádraig and Willie Pearse had a hurried tea on Easter Sunday afternoon 1916 when leaving the college for the last time. White with maroon borders.tea saucer / Pearse Brothers, 1916
One of two cups saucers from St Enda's College, from which Pádraig and Willie Pearse had a hurried tea on Easter Sunday afternoon 1916 when leaving the college for the last time. White with maroon borders.tea cup / Pearse Brothers, 1916
One of two cups saucers from St Enda's College, from which Pádraig and Willie Pearse had a hurried tea on Easter Sunday afternoon 1916 when leaving the college for the last time. White with maroon borders.tea saucer / Pearse Brothers, 1916
One of two cups saucers from St Enda's College, from which Pádraig and Willie Pearse had a hurried tea on Easter Sunday afternoon 1916 when leaving the college for the last time. White with maroon borders.
drawing / Connradh na Gaedhilge
Original drawing, or design, hand painted cloth badge and set of stencils for the Connradh na Gaedhilge Oireachtas in Dundalk in 1916. By Art Ó Murnaghan.
target sheet / Irish Volunteers
7 practice targets of the Irish Volunteers. Irish Volunteers' targets headquarters, 2 Dawson Street. Two 25 yard targets, and five 50 yard targets.
poster / Irish Government, 1920-22
Poster / picture Irish Government. President De Valera, Richard Mulcahy, Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Seán MacKeon. With photographic images of each. Circa 1920 to 1922 and following.
print / Thomas Ashe
Print of painting of Thomas Ashe in full Piper's Costume.
roll of honour / Boland's Mills Garrison
Bound book of illuminated address and roll pages - Boland's Mills Garrison Roll of Honour, as presented to Eamon de Valera.
uniform / Free State Army, General Richard Mulcahy
Officers Uniform Jacket, Free State Army. Originally belonging to General Richard Mulcahy. Field-green woollen Irish Army officers jacket, with insignia on epaulettes and collar denoting rank of General, and with brass buttons showing the harp. No maker's name.
badge / Michael Collins, Irish Volunteers
Irish Volunteers uniform button. Circular brass button attached to pin, showing the initials "I.V." on either side of a harp. A paper note attached reads "From Michael's Tunic 27.8.1922". From an Irish Volunteers Tunic. Said to have been worn by Michael Collins at Béal na mBláth, 1922. The pencil...
relic / Michael Collins
Rosary beads, alleged to have been found on the person of Michael Collins at his death, and kept by Colonel Joe O'Reilly. The beads possibly of synthetic material, the electro-plated crucifix case engraved with stylised shamrock motifs, hinged lid marked with maker's mark "H.H.". Engraving on...
pen / Anglo-Irish Treaty, Michael Collins
Pen originally belonging to Michael Collins, and allegedly used to sign the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921. Cylindrical black plastic fountain pen with detachable nib, the cap with silver shirt hook.
envelope / Lloyd George to Carson, 1916
Lloyd George's letter to Carson, 29 May 1916. Re enclosed first draft of proposition, saying they must make it clear that at the end of the provisional period Ulster does not, whether she wills it or not, merge with the rest of Ireland, and a request that Carson show it to Craig.