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.
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
prison art / Tomas O'Reilly, Wandsworth, 1916
Rosary in crochet bag given by Tomas O'Reilly (Irish prisoner) in Wandsworth to donor. Bag made by O'Reilly. Macrame bag.
prison art / Wormwood Scrubs, 1916
Table centre, crochet wool work, in the national colours of green, orange and white, made by James Morgan of Kilkeel, Co. Down, while a prisoner in Wormwood Scrubs or Wansdworth Prison. Morgan was a hunger striker there and Wandsworth 1916. Given by him to Miss Kelly of London.
newspaper article / Mountjoy 10
Frank Flood. A cutting regarding the death of Flood, Thomas Bryan, Patrick Doyle and Bernard Ryan, detailing their last minutes. Titled 'All for the Sacred Heart'.
prison food / Knutsford Gaol, 1916
Piece of prison bread distributed in Knutsford Gaol to Irish prisoners after the 1916 Rising. Saved by T. Coleman. Piece of wheaten bread, dried. 'Knutsford 1916' written on one side.
photograph / Markievicz / Houston, 1912
Photograph print of Countess Markievicz as Joan of Arc with Miss Kathleen Houston in one of the Tableaux Vivants in the Daffodil Fete held in aid of the Women's Suffrage Movement in March, 1912. Markievicz made the armour herself. Houston had then just been released from prison, where she was...
postcard / An Cumann Náisiúnta, 1914
Postcard addressed to Liam Ó Gógáin, Cumann Gaedhealach na h-Iolscoile, U.C.D., 17/2/1914 by Osbháld Mac an Iascaire - invitation to meeting of An Cumann Náisiúnta.
Bible / Countess Markievicz
Countess Markievicz's bible. Printed Oxford University Press, 1874, received by Countess Markievicz, April 1876, when she was eight years old, from her grand-mother, Lady Fanny Hill, the mother of Lady Georgina Gore Booth, the Countess' mother. In 1876 Sir Robert, the Countess' father died. The...
portrait / Countess Markievicz
Framed water colour painting of Countess Markievicz. Copy, slightly enlarged and not painted directly from the original but from a photograph of it, of a water colour self-portrait of the Countess (age about 14 or 16, done at Glaslough, Co. Monaghan, seat of Sir John Leslie). Original is property...
prison art / Holloway Gaol, 1918
A cigarette box, decorated by Countess in Holloway Gaol, December 1918. Mrs Jenny Wyse-Power sent her a box of Irish grown/Ballyowen, Wexford cigarettes at Christmas. Countess decorated the plain grey cardboard box and returned it. Decorated with a newspaper print of her own portrait in Irish...
envelope / Markievicz / Lloyd George, 1919
The Countess as M.P. Original notification, 1919. Printed, on paper with mourning edge; printed signature of D. Lloyd George, addressed to the Countess on 5 February 1919, requesting her to attend opening of Parliament in her capacity as M.P. Directed to St. Patrick's, Dublin and forwarded to...
letter / Seán Treacy, 1917
Photostat of letter, Seán Treacy, Gaol, Dublin, 20.10.1917 to Patrick Deere, Crocpoor, Donaskeagh, Co. Tipperary, with envelope.
letter / Sean Treacy, 1918
Photostat of letter of Sean Treacy from Dundalk Prison 5/4/1918 to Patrick Deere. No envelope.
badge / Irish Volunteers
Irish Volunteer button badge. Front bears a harp, with IV left and right; margin of dots. Back, on stud, reads 'Made in Ireland. Quinn. Belfast'.