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.
bullet / Mount Street Bridge, 1916 Rising
Set of seven lead bullets, or slugs, stated to have been fired from a shotgun, and found in brick wall near Mount Street Bridge after the battle which took place there during the 1916 Rising.
bullet / National Bank, Dame Street, 1916
Bullet taken from the door of the National Bank on Dame Street after the 1916 Rising.
memorandum / Magazine Fort Raid, 1916
1916 Rising, prisoners in Kilmainham. Memorandum document from R.E. Campbell 2 St. 2K. E.H. Phoenix Park Magazine to W.S. Lennon, Major, Commandant Kilmainham, Detention Barracks, dated 2 May 1916. Re the identification of the men responsible for the Magazine Fort Raid.
internment order / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch internment order, for prisoner Daniel Canny, 70 North Strand Road, Dublin. 1916.
medal / For Labour and Ireland, 1916
War Medal; I.R.A. Active Service. Lieutenent M. Kelly, 1916. (seemingly Irish Citizen Army). Obverse 'For Labour and Ireland'. Reverse 'Irish Republican Army' and 'Lieut. M. Kelly 1916'.
letter / Terence MacSwiney, 1917
Letter from Terence MacSwiney to Séan de Barra, and the envelope which contained it. Dated 30 April 1917.
newspaper article / Daily Sketch / Terence MacSwiney, 1920
Newspaper cutting from the Daily Sketch. Regarding Terence MacSwiney funeral. 29th October 1920.
newspaper article / New York Times / Terence MacSwiney, 1920
Newspaper cutting from The New York Times. Regarding Terence MacSwiney funeral. 14th November 1920.
letter / Independent Theatre Company, 1912
Letter from Count Markievicz, 1912, to Michael Waldron. On Independent Theatre Company notepaper.
surrender order / Surrender, 1916 Rising
The original of a draft of Patrick H. Pearse's order for the surrender of the Republican forces, dated 29th April, 1916, 4.45pm, to General Maxwell, offering an unconditional surrender. On embossed crown paper. Reads 'In order to prevent the further...
arms dump / Corporation Flats, James' Street, Dublin
Arms dump. One old gaol key; one revolver, .22 (framework of); two rounds of Mauser ammunition; one British service rifle ; ammunition case; two rounds .22 ammunition. (All found in slum clearance area, site of Corporation Flats in James' St., Basin Lane). Note:- Also found with this collection...
book / Irland, Deutschland und die Freiheit der Meere und Andere Aufsatze, 1917
Copy of a book by Sir Roger Casement. "Irland, Deutschland und die Freiheit der Meere und Andere Aufsatze" - Casement's writings translated to German - zweite Auflage, 1917, Jos. C. Huber, Diessen vor Munchen.
souvenir / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Hotel Metropole 1916 Relic. Five sugar bowls, fused together by action of the fire, salvaged from the Hotel Metropole, Dublin, after the burning, Easter 1916. Blackened from fire. A contemporary label has been affixed to one side, reading "Souvenier of Rising 1916. Metropole Hotel".
membership card / Irish Volunteers, 1919
Irish Volunteer Membership Card, No. 13398, dated, 2 October 1919. Of Volunteer Tomas A Galline (?). Two contributions marked in October, for 6d and 4d.
button / Irish Volunteers
An Irish Volunteer button. On face I Harp V; on back: Made in Ireland by (Quinn?) Belfast. No.525348. Found in 1933 in Friends' Field, Ballybough, a site where refuse from the ruins of the G.P.O. was dumped after the Rising in 1916.
letter / Bourke, Kinvara, Co. Galway
Letter from Countess Markievicz. Re the dependant of a prisoner - Bourke of Kinvara, Co. Galway. No date.
newspaper / The Workers' Republic, 22 April 1916
Copy of 'The Workers' Republic'. Dublin, April 22nd, 1916.
photograph / Seamus Robinson, Sean Treacy, Dan Breen and Major General M. Brennan, 1920
Photograph of Seamus Robinson, Sean Treacy, Dan Breen and Major General M. Brennan. Taken in Dublin in early 1920. A copy of this photograph was subsequently captured and the individual photographs were used by the authorities of Dublin Castle for publication in the "Hue and Cry" with the...
sketch / Seamus Reader, Reading Gaol, 1916
Drawing by Seamus Milroy of Seamus Reader, done in Reading Gaol, 1916'. Coloured sketch of Seamus Reader in cowboy outfit, inscribed 'Not Bronco Billy here you see, but a Reading hard-chaw you'll agree, at a hullabuloo a romping leader, and the name he owns is Seamus Reader'. In envelope with...