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.
certificate / Michael O'Hanrahan, 1916
Certificate of Death of Michael O'Hanrahan, which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field General Court Martial), date of death (4 May 1916) of the above. Date of registration is 2 June 1916. O'Hanrahan was executed for his involvement in the 1916...
death certificate / Thomas Clarke, 1916
Certificate of Death of Thomas Clarke, which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field general Court Martial) and date of death (3.5.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. Clarke was executed for his involvement in the 1916 Rising. Once the...
death certificate / Joseph Plunkett, 1916
Certificate of Death of Joseph Plunkett, which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field general Court Martial) and date of death (4.5.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. Plunkett was executed for his involvement in the 1916 Rising. Once the...
certificate / William Pearse, 1916
Certificate of Death of William Pearse, which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field general Court Martial) and date of death (4.5.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. Pearse was executed for his involvement in the 1916 Rising. Once the...
death certificate / Edward Daly, 1916
Certificate of Death of Edward Daly, which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field General Court Martial) and date of death (4.5.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. Daly was executed for his involvement in the 1916 Rising. Once the deaths...
certificate / John MacBride, 1916
Certificate of Death of John MacBride, which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field General Court Martial) and date of death (5.5.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. MacBride was executed for his involvement in the 1916 Rising. Once the...
death certificate / Éamonn Ceannt, 1916
Certificate of Death of Edmund Kent, (Éamonn Ceannt) which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field General Court Martial) and date of death (8.5.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. Kent was executed for his involvement in the 1916 Rising....
certificate / Con Colbert, 1916
Certificate of Death of Cornelius Colbert, (Con Colbert) which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field General Court Martial) and date of death (8.5.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. Colbert was executed for his involvement in the 1916...
death certificate / Seán Mac Diarmada, 1916
Certificate of Death of John McDermott (Seán Mac Diarmada), which states the place (Detention Barracks, Kilmainham), cause (Shooting by order of Field General Court Martial) and date of death (12.6.1916) of the above. Certificate dated 2 June 1916. Mac Diarmada was executed for his involvement in...
altar crucifix / Kilmainham Prison Chapel
Altar crucifix from Kilmainham Prison Chapel.
cross / Kilmainham executions, 1916
Small indulgence crucifix used at the executions of the leaders of the Easter Rising at Kilmainham Jail, May 1916.
rifle case / Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz rifle case. A rifle, the property of the late Countess De Markievicz, which was seized during the raid on Surrey House, Leinster Road.
autograph album / Kilworth Camp, 1921
Prison autograph album. Soft back book, black cover. Gilt lettering "Autographs". Kilworth Prison autograph album, containing the names of most of the 21 men who escaped from Kilworth Camp, 1921.
field order / Ballymore Eustace, 1922
Civil War document, I.R.A., 6 July 1922. ex I.R.A. H.Q. Ballymore Eustace field orders.
letter / Hammam Hotel, 2 July 1922
Civil War document, letter, I.R.A., 2 July 1922. ex o/c Ball (?) to o/c South Dublin from Hammam Hotel, on hotel notepaper, asking for supplies and giving account of war.
pocket watch / Thomas Weafer, 1916
Watch which belonged to Captain Thomas J. Weafer, E.Coy. 2nd Battalion, Dublin Brigade. Found in the Hibernian Bank on the corner of O'Connell Street and Abbey Street with some human bones, presumably those of Captain Weafer, after the fires which destroyed the building burned out.
pass / Dáil Eireann, 21 January 1919
Admittance ticket or pass for the first meeting of Dáil Eireann, 21 January 1919. Yellow rectangular pass, printed with text in black and signed by Eamon Tuke, to whom the pass was issued.
letter / Miss Daly, 1917
Letter from the late Commandant Peadar Clancy to Miss Daly. Addressed from Cranny, Co. Clare, on 18 October 1917. Details include the possible establishment of Cumann na mBan in Kilrush.
painting / Mabel Foster / Markievicz
Small painting of Countess Markievicz's sister Mabel, (Mrs. Foster). Oil painting.