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.
1916 Medal / Peter Coates, I.C.A.
1916 service medal and ribbon named on reverse to Peter Coates, Irish Citizen Army.
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Peter Coates, I.C.A.
War of Independence Active Service medal, comhrac bar and ribbon named on reverse to Peter Coates, Irish Citizen Army. Engraved on reverse.
buttonhole badge / Peter Coates, 1916 Participants Commemoration, 1936
1916 participant's commemorative button-hole badge in enamelled silver, which was presented to Peter Coates of the Irish Citizen Army by the 1916 Easter Week Men's Association of Ireland in 1936. In outline a map of Ireland, showing 1916 in silver through the green enamel on top, an armed Volunteer...
cricket bat / Elvery's, O'Connell Street, 1916 Rising
Cricket bat with a .303 bullet embedded in front section, shot while it was on display in the window of Elvery's shop premises in Sackville Street, Dublin, during the 1916 Rising combat. Inscribed in ink 'Easter Week 1916' beside bullet. Also 'From front window'.
holster / Con Colbert, 1916
Captain Con Colbert's Webley & Scott automatic pistol. It was given by him to a friend, a short time before Easter Week, 1916. Serial No. 115555.
receipt / Thomas O'Dwyer, R.I.C.,1919
Manuscript receipt from Royal Irish Constabulary, May 1919 for items seized in Greenore from Thomas O'Dwyer, the donor's grandfather. Mounted, glazed and framed.
internment order / Thomas O'Dwyer, 1920
Ballykinlar internment order 4 December 1920, served on Thomas O'Dwyer. Mounted, glazed and framed.
parole application / Thomas O'Dwyer, 1921
Ballykinlar parole application form dated 2 December 1921, made out for Thomas O'Dwyer asking for release between 2 and 12 December 1921. Mounted, glazed and framed.
form / Thomas O'Dwyer, 1921
Internment order cancellation form dated 8 December 1921, made out for Thomas O'Dwyer. Mounted, glazed and framed.
print / Northumberland Road
Northumberland Road picture. Mounted and glazed print of 'Among the Hills' by P. Graham 1893 in wooden frame 125 x 100 cm, the picture itself damaged, and the glass bearing a label stating that it was damaged during the battle of Mount Street Bridge in 1916. Picture removed by the donor from a...
trophy / Defence of Trinity, Cadet Corporal P.J. Killeen, 1916
Silver cup awarded to Defenders of Trinity College Dublin, 1916 Rising. Awarded to Cadet Corporal P.J. Killeen. Engraved one side is DEFENCE OF T.C.D./SINN FEIN REBELLION/EASTER 1916 and on the other side CADET CORPL P.J. KILLEEN. 8 cm. high and 7 cm. wide overall, with 'Regd 307558' stamped on...
souvenir / Con Colbert, Irish Volunteers, 1916
An Irish Volunteer button from Captain Con Colbert's tunic. An I.V. button which has been re-formed into a badge, set onto a tricolour ribbon, in commemoration. Presented in a Hopkins & Hopkins Goldsmith's (Dublin) jewllers box of blue velvet.
postcard photograph / Tomas MacCurtain
Photograph of Tomás Mac Curtain. Photograph and legend printed on card by DAOL in Cork.
cross / Amiens Street, 1916
Crucifix with shrapnel damage from an explosion which damaged the room at 59 Amiens Street, Dublin, during the Easter Rising.
article / Labour in Dublin
'Labour in Dublin' by James Connolly. Offprint of this article from The Irish Review, October 1913.
notepaper / William O'Brien, Stockport, 1920
Stockport Parliamentary By-Election, 1920. Headed notepaper from the campaign supporting William O'Brien's candidature.
notice / To Hell with Contracts, c. 1920.
'To Hell with Contracts'. Irish Transport and General Workers' Union strike notice, c. 1920. Hotel and Restaurant Branch. Re Moira, Dolphin, Central, Wicklow and Grosevenor Hotels.
booklet / Sinn Féin Rebellion Picture Souvenir
'The Sinn Féin Rebellion Picture Souvenir', W. & G. Baird Ltd., Belfast.
handbill / Labour and Conscription, 1918
Labour and Conscription, 1918. Leaflet issued on 24 June 1918 by the Irish Trades Union Congress and Labour Party. Signed by William O'Brien, Thomas Cassidy et al. The names D.R. Campbell and J.H. Bennett written on the back in pencil.