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.
envelope / 'Censored', G.P.O., 1916
One of five envelopes (which had passed through G.P.O. 1916 and bear Censorship - British? - tags) addressed to Messrs. Watkins, Jameson Pim & Co., Ltd., Ardee Street Brewery, Dublin, dated (postmarks) April 25, 1916 (? etc.) Came in while Volunteers in occupation and left there on the surrender....
ammunition / Ardee Street Brewery, 1916
1916 Rifle ammunition carton, cardboard. Labelled '20 Scharfe Patronen Fúr Mauser-Gewhere. M 71.84'. Left behind by the Irish Volunteers in Ardee Street Brewery on their evacuation, 1916. Ardee Street Brewery, or Watkin's Brewery, was an outpost located in The Liberties area, occupied by Con...
rifle / Aud, 1916
Mosin rifle; Russian. Part of the 'Aud' consignment, salvaged from the wreck. Serial No.17640. Silver plaque on rifle butt reads - 'Rifle recovered from German SS Aud, sunk near Queenstown 21.4.1916'.
photograph / Howth Gun-Running, 1914
Group surrounding motor car at pier. Photograph taken by a press photographer at the Howth Gun-Running, 1914.
button / Irish Volunteers
Irish Volunteer button, brass. A harp between the letters I.V. On back: SPECIAL QUALITY. Diam., circa 9/10".
medal / Ulster Anti-Home Rule, 1914
Ulster Anti-Home Rule medal, c. 1914. Medal, gilt. One side - Around: ONE FLAG. ONE FLEET. ONE THRONE. ONE PARLIAMENT. In centre: crossed Union Jacks, above, hand of Ulster, below ULSTER. Other side - Around: LOYAL ULSTER'S RESOLVE. WE WILL NOT HAVE HOME RULE. In centre: crossed Union Jacks,...
dance ticket / Irish Women's Franchise League, 28th April, 1916
Ticket for dance to be re run by Irish Women's Franchise League in Dublin, 28th April, 1916 - the Friday of Easter Week - not held because of Rising - Professor Liam O Briein and his wife were to have been present. He fought with the Irish Citizen Army at the College of Surgeons during Easter week....
photograph / de Valera, Collins etc, 1921
Photograph of group, Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, and others c.1921. Apparently at a football or hurling match or sports meeting.
ammunition / Magazine Fort Raid, 1916
1916 Magazine Fort Raid. Clips of rifle ammunition, the cartridges burst and the whole made to adhere together by molten lead. Said to have come from the fire in the Magazine Fort. Fused cartridge, one bullet separate within the whole.
play / Women, Ideals and the Nation / The Dilettante, 1909
Note book - manuscript, of Countess Markievicz. Part of original manuscript of her first lecture, 'Women, Ideals and the Nation' - to Irish Students' Literary Society, 1909, later printed, and rough draft of Count Markievicz's. 'The Dilettante' (play) in his own hand.
lecture / Women, Ideals and the Nation, 1909
Countess Markievicz's notebook. Conclusion of above lecture ('Women, Ideals and the Nation'), 1909, cf. EW. 919(d).
play / 1798
Countess Markievicz's notebook. Rough draft of a 1798 play. Handwritten.
article / British Empire, 1909
Countess Markievicz's notebook. Rough draft of article on British Empire, about 1909.
notebook / Co-Operative Movement, c. 1910.
Countess Markievicz's notebook. Rough draft of article on Co-Operative Movement, about 1910.
notebook / Criticism of Irish Women's Franchise League
Countess Markievicz's notebook. 'Criticism of Irish Women's Franchise League' etc., about 1909-1910.
notebook / Historical Dates and Quotations from Speeches etc. of Great Irishmen
Countess Markievicz's notebook. 'Historical Dates and Quotations from Speeches etc. of Great Irishmen'.
letter / Dr. Seamus O'Beirn, 1910
Letter, handwritten by Sir Roger Casement to Dr. Seamus O'Beirn, the father of the donor. Addressed from 9 Farrington Road, London, 16 July 1910. Re Tawin, Co. Galway school. 1 1/4 pages. No envelope.
letter / Mrs. O'Beirn, 1912
Letter, handwritten by Sir Roger Casement to Mrs. O'Beirn, grandmother of the donor. Addressed from 9 Farrington Road, London, 4 November, 1912. Re presents sent to her and to Stephen Ruane, the Galway piper; reference to driving English out of Ireland. No envelope. 4 pp.
souvenir / Thomas Whelan, 1921
Mountjoy, 1921. The toothbrush which belonged to Thomas Whelan, executed. Given to the Mrs R. Kelly by Mrs. Mahon of Barrow St., Ringsend, Dublin: Thomas Whelan's landlady.