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.
souvenir / 1916 Rising
A burned watch from the ruins of Messrs. Hopkins & Hopkins, Jewellers, on the corner of O'Connell Street and Eden Quay, 1916. the face of watch is missing. The case and mechanism are present but severely burned.
souvenir / GPO, 1916
A piece of barbed wire from the barricade erected by the Irish Volunteers opposite the General Post Office during Easter week, 1916.
button / Irish Volunteers, 1916 Rising
A button from an Irish Volunteer's uniform. Found after Easter Week 1916. Harp only, no 'I.V.'
photograph / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921
A group of members of the Kildare Brigade I.R.A. Photographed in Ballykinlar Internment Camp. 1920-1921.
prison art / Harry Kenny, Frongoch, 1916
Portrait of donor, Harry Kenny, by Tom Kane done in North Camp, Frongoch, 1916. Painting.
death mask / Margaret Pearse
Death mask of Mrs Margaret Pearse. Plaster.
prison autograph album / Frongoch, 1916
Auotgraph book with drawings and autographs, compiled in Frongoch by Mr. Míchael Ó Ceallaigh after the rising of 1916. With black cover.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Sketch book, drawings, compiled by the late Michael O'Ceallaigh while a prisoner of war at Frongoch etc., after the Rising of Easter Week. With red cover.
clip (arms equipment) / Executions, Kilmainham, 1916
Cases of bullets, in clip, which were used in the executions of the 1916 Leaders. Five empty cartridge cases stated to have been the actual cases from which the bullets were fired which cut short the lives of Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Thomas J. Clarke, the first three of the signatories...
prison art / Newbridge Internment Camp, 1922
Opera House, Newbridge Internment Camp, poster, 12th November 1922. Poster designed and drawn by Eoin Ó Caoimh to announce a prison entertainment 12 November, 1922.
miniature / Kevin Barry
Miniature: Kevin Barry. By A.F. Levins, on ivory, painted from a newspaper photograph. Barry was executed in Mountjoy Prison in 1920.
relic / Francis Sheehy Skeffington, 1916
Portion of a brick in which is embedded a bullet, fired by the firing party which executed Mr Francis Sheehy Skeffington at Portobello Barracks, that passed through the body of the late Francis Sheehy Skeffington. With authenticating letter signed by F. McL. Scannell, December 1935 (NMI...
internment order / Samuel Hall, 1916
Notice of internment order served on Samuel Hall, 1916 (Frongoch).
photograph / Markievicz, Hunter, de Loughy, Sweeney
Photograph: Countess Markievicz, Commandant Tom Hunter, Peter de Loughy, Peter Sweeney, Loughrea, and one other (No. 2)
photograph / Markievicz, Sweeney, de Loughry
Photograph autographed by Countess Markievicz. Left to right: P. Sweeney, Loughrea, Peter de Loughry, Kilkenny, The Countess (in car) and another man (No. 3).
photograph / Countess Markievicz
Photograph: Countess Markievicz and others
prison art / Ballykinlar Alter, c. 1920
Drawing of first altar erected at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, c.1920. Drapery and floor covering in front was of military blankets.
prison art / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921
Drawing of black hut and bath house, Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920 to 1921.