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 / ITGWU / Connolly / Belfast banner
Of an Irish Transport and General Workers' Union banner, with James Connolly in the centre. Belfast area. Black and white / monochrome print.
photograph / Sinn Fein Group c. 1920
Sinn Fein Group c. 1920, including Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, Gearoid O'Sullivan, Harry Boland, Richard Mulcahy, Rory O'Connor, Countess Markievicz, Nora Connolly.
letter / Patrick White, 1921
Spike Island, 1921 - letter from Rev. J. Callanan c.c. on 1 June, 1921 to Mr. A. White advising him of the execution of his brother, Patrick, the previous night. Accompanying this is a short biographical note by donor, a nephew, on Patrick White's life.
handbook / Tramp Camps and Standing Camps for Boy Scouts, 1911
Book, 'Tramp Camps and Standing Camps for Boy Scouts' by J. A. Kyle. Published by James Brown & Son, Official Publishers to Boy Scout Headquarters. Baden Powell Boy Scouts handbook, issued in 1911. The inside pages bears a facsimile signature of Liamhan S. Mac Ionnraic, and the stamp of the...
prisoner list / Ballykinlar 1920/21
Ballykinlar 1920 / 1921. 22 names of prisoners in Hut 20 on a manuscript, most with a sum of money (1/- or 6d) after their names. Names on list are C. Saurin, J.V. Joyce, J. Daly, J. Maguire, John Morriss, James Morriss, C. Davitt, O. Stapleton, Woods, P. Colgan, Stynes, William Bracken, P. Flynn,...
card / Sinn Féin, 1920
Sinn Féin christmas card, c.1920. With the legend "Nollaig/Wormwood Scrubs/Mountjoy/From Bondage/To Freedom" on front. Neo-Celtic style artwork, probably by Art Ó Murnaghan.
greeting card / Sinn Féin, c.1920.
Sinn Féin card c.1920. The words within an Art Ó Murnaghan style Celtic surround. Inside blank. Probably for use as a gretting card.
form / Sinn Féin Christmas Card Co. c.1920
Sinn Féin Christmas Card Co. c.1920. Billhead listing the proprietors as Art Ó Murnaghan and George A. Lyons (donor's adoptive father).
photograph / George A. Lyons, c.1930
Photograph, 1/2 plate black and white photograph of George A. Lyons (c.1930) shown standing and speaking at a reception.
photograph / Fr. Augustine
Photograph of Fr Augustine OSFC. Mounted 1/2 plate head and shoulders sepia photograph.
letter / George Lyons, 15 December 1921
Letter from Michael Collins, 15 December 1921. Manuscript in ink. Thanking George Lyons (Seoirse a Laogh) for his letter and adding "the removal of the Army of occupation is a Supreme thing". Written on Dail Eireann Department of Finance headed paper. Register - Mounted behind a vellum type page...
internment order / George Lyons, Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch internment order, 1916, served on George Lyons. Later mounted on cloth and entitled 'Certifcate of Patriotism'.
certificate / Michael Mallin, 1906
Michael Mallin. 16.5 x 12.5 inches certificate of his entitlement to weave, issued 14 April 1906 and signed by Thomas Quinn as President.
prison art / Maryboro Jail, 1922 / 1923
Carved bone cross, ex Maryboro Jail, 1922 / 1923. Celtic cross 9.8 x 5.8 cm. overall, carved by an injured prisoner, John Goodison, with a broken needle, and including the dedication "In Loving/Memory of/J. Parle/P. Hogan/J. Creane/Executed in/Wexford".
portrait / Eamon de Valera
Portrait photograph of Eamon de Valera. Coloured.
photograph / Thomas Ashe Funeral, 1917
photograph, Thomas Ashe Funeral, 1917. The firing party and crowd at the graveside. 13 by 19 inches.
photograph / Liberty Hall Raid, 1921
Liberty Hall Raid, 1921. Three Labour Leaders on back of a lorry, having been arrested. Dimensions 13 by 19 inches. Cashman Collection.
newsheet / The Rough Tough Truth, June 1918
Copy of 'The Rough Tough Truth'. A Journal of Uncommon Sense, Dundalk Jail, June 1918, Vol. 1 No. 1. Prison Journal - printed.
photograph / Hunger Strike, 1920
1920 Hunger Strike. 13" x 19". Fr. Albert and a large crowd watching ambulance men removing a prisoner on a stretcher having brought him from Mountjoy to the Mater.