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.
photograph / Irish Peace Conference, 1921
Postcard photograph of the Irish Peace Conference, July 1921, the delegates leaving Dun Laoghaire. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who...
sheet music / The Soldier's Song
Copy of The Soldier’s Song. Sheet music. Dedicated and signed by the author, Peadar Ó Cearnaigh (Kearney), on the front page, as follows: ‘Le deag-thoil an Ughdáir. / Peadar Ó Cearnaigh. / 22/3/18’. Published by Whelan & Son, 17 Upper Ormond Quay, c. 1918. In folio format (a sheet of paper...
letter / Irish Republican Soldiers Federation
Letter from the 1916 Club Irish Republican Soldiers Federation, Dublin, to the family of Michael Fleming, expressing condolences on his death. Signed M. Brady. 1946. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph...
letter / Lewes Prison, 1917
Letter written to Michael Fleming in Lewes Prison, dated 20 March 1917. Written back and front on standard issue prison letter sheet. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of...
letter / Wormwood Scrubs, 1916
Letter written to 'Uncle' in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, dated 23 June 1916. Written on standard issue printed prison letter sheet, with short details added by hand. Signed Mikeo Fleming, no 307. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons...
prison notice / Dartmoor and Lewes Prison Warders, 1916 - 1917
Prison notice, 'Dietary for Prisoners in Local Prisons. Prisoners sentenced to hard labour and offenders of the third division. Outlining meals for the week. On the back is written the names of prison warders from Dartmoor and Lewes Prisons 'Slowman, Chapman, Newman Webb Robins Elliot Nash Birch...
internment order / Michael Fleming, 1921
Internment order, 'Order under Regulation no. 14B of the Restoration of Order in Ireland Regulations'. Ordering the internment of Michael Fleming in Ballykinlar Camp or Curragh Camp, 13 April 1921. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his...
internment order / Patrick Fleming, 1916
Internment order, for the internment of Patrick Fleming, number 181146, of Clarenbridge, Co. Galway, in Frongoch, 1916. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge,...
postcard cartoon / 'To House Hunters', 1916 - 1917
Postcard cartoon, showing a prisoner inside the yard of a British Prison. The verse underneath reads 'To House Hunters, why pay rent when you can live in a substantial residence for nothing? Terms long or short. Security guaranteed'. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family,...
legal document / Michael Fleming Junior, 1917
Summary of evidence in the case of Michael Fleming Junior of Clarenbridge, with an offence under the Defence of the Realm Regulations. Including drilling and saluting the Sinn Fein flag. As signed by RIC Constable J. Murphy and Captain O.L. Moriarty of the 4th Royal Munster Fusiliers. June...
letter / Lewes Prison, 1917
Letter from Lewes Prison, 28 February 1917, informing recipient that both Fleming and his son are here, and that the son will be discharged in a week or two and sent back to Ireland. From the Governor of Lewes Prison. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father...
postcard photograph / Mary Smyth
Postcard photograph, of possibly Miss Mary Smyth of Clonakilty, Co. Cork, who paid Michael Fleming two visits while in Leweds Prison. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of...
postcard photograph / Sean Reid,Dartmoor 1916 - 1917
Postcard photograph, of Jack Reid (Sean Reid), prisoner number q129, in his prison cap. Dartmoor Prison, 1916 to 1917. Sent by Reid to Michael Fleming. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish...
letter / Somewhere in Ireland
Letter, typescript copy of. Addressed to Mother from 'Rover', a son of Michael Fleming, Wednesday, 'Somewhere in Ireland'. Copy of letter sent while on the run, during the War of Independence period. With greeting and news of a Mr O'Hanlon's son being killed by the Black and Tans. Part of a...
letter / Joseph Fleming, Wakefield, 1916
Letter, from Joseph Fleming, prison number 1150 to his mother, while at Wakefield Prison, 1st June 1916. On Y.M.C.A. headed paper. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of...
letter / Michael to Joseph Fleming, 1922
Letter, from Michael Fleming to his son Joseph Fleming in prison, dated 11 August 1922, Irish Civil War. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co....
letter / Lewes Prison, 1917
Letter from Lewes Prison, 14 June 1917, informing recipient that his father is still here at present, and in good health, but letters suspended. From the Governor of Lewes Prison. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick,...
letter / Leo Fleming, 1916 - 1917
Letter, probably written by the Reverand Thomas Leo Fleming, instructing how to send letters to Michael Fleming at Dartmoor Prison and his nephew Michael at Wornwood Scrubs, with addresses of both. 1916 to 1917. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael...
letter / Austin, 1924
Letter, written by Austin, from a prison, dated 22 January 1924. Refes to hunger strike. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who...