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.
pin badge / Rainbow Chasers
Paper lapel or pin badge. Rainbow Chasers - Roscommon, Longford, Clare, Kilkenny. Copyright Gaelic Press, Dublin.
photograph / Sinn Fein Rebel Leaders under arrest, 1916
Postcard photograph; Sinn Fein Rebel Leaders under arrest. Major John McBride (central figure nearest camera) being marched off under escort. Published by Valentines, Dublin.
pin badge / Thomas Ashe, 1917
Paper lapel or pin badge, green print, depicting Thomas Ashe on obverse, and Irish inscription on reverse 'Arus Tomais Aghas'. Commemoration of the death of Thomas Ashe, Mountjoy, 1917, of a type worn at his funeral in September 1917.
photograph / Alderman James J. Kelly
Postcard photograph; Alderman James J. Kelly of Dublin, head and shoulders portrait. Handwritten on the reverse is a note to Cathal MacDowell - To friend McDowell, Taken in Dublin before my arrest, James J. Kelly, ex High Sheriff, Dublin.
photograph / Alderman James J. Kelly
Postcard photograph; Alderman James J. Kelly of Dublin, head and shoulders portrait. Handwritten on the reverse is a note to Cathal MacDowell - To friend McDowell, Taken in London after my release from Wandsworth Jail and deportation in a cattle boat, James J. Kelly, ex High Sheriff, Dublin.
cartoon / Like all scabs, Redmond
Postcard cartoon; John Redmond being kicked out of Ireland. Asquith - Like all scabs, Redmond, you are a failure from a business standpoint. Possibly 1914 - 1915. Handwritten note on back of duplicate states this is by Ernest Kavanagh.
cartoon / Like all scabs, Redmond
Postcard cartoon; John Redmond being kicked out of Ireland. Asquith - Like all scabs, Redmond, you are a failure from a business standpoint. Possibly 1914 - 1915. Handwritten note on back states this is by Ernest Kavanagh.
cartoon / A Seditious Tail
Postcard cartoon; anti-recruitment propaganda. Depicting DMP constables chasing a dog, titled 'A Seditious Tail'. Signed Rookey.
cartoon / All communications for this lady must be made through me, 1921
Postcard cartoon; I.R.A. man to John Bull - All communications for this lady (Eire) must be made through me. By Art Cavanagh, 1921. Irish made card.
photograph / Thomas MacDonagh
Postcard photograph; Thomas MacDonagh. Commemorative postcard. Photograph by E. Brook Smith of Dublin. Published by Curran of Dublin. Printed in Great Britain.
photograph / The Signing of the Republican Declaration
Postcard photograph; The Signing of the Republican Declaration. Commemorative postcard. Collage image of the signatories of the 1916 Proclamation.
photograph / Patrick O'Donnell
Postcard photograph; Patrick O'Donnell, member of the Invincibles, Fenian Movement.
photograph / Thomas Francis Meagher
Postcard; commemoration postcard depicting Thomas Francis Meagher. With quotation.
photograph / Irish National Volunteers, c. 1915
Postcard photograph; The National Volunteers, Group of Commanders.
cartoon / Ireland First and Ireland Last
Postcard cartoon; 1916 Rising commemoration. Black and white drawing of an armed Irish Volunteer in front of the GPO, holding a tricolour above and standing on a Union flag. With the legend 'Ireland First and Ireland Last, and Ireland Over All. 1916'.
cartoon / England Hangland, 1921
Postcard cartoon: England Hangland. Zum Gedachtnis Fur Irlands Freiheitskampfer. Handwritten note on back implies this was sent to Cathal MacDowell by a Dr Grabisch(?) of Berlin, and a note saying Maeve to send any of her stuff. This card was redrawn by Cathal MacDowell, 1921, with English...
cartoon / England Hangland, 1921
Postcard cartoon: England Hangland. A German View of Things. Zum Gedachtnis Fur Irlands Freiheitskampfer. Remember Ireland's Gallows. The original was published in Berlin by the German-Irish Society on the occasion of the six executions in Mountjoy. 1921. Artwork redrawn by Cathal MacDowell.
photograph / Robert Monteith
Postcard photograph; Captain Robert Monteith, full length, in uniform. Published by Curran of Dublin. Printed in Great Britain.
photograph / Hurley of Belvedere Place
Postcard photograph; Male in uniform, full length studio portrait. Handwritten on the reverse is a note statement that this may be Hurley, who lived in Belvedere Place, c. 1915 to 1916, a friend of Cathal MacDowell's. Information from a T. Keating, 13 March 1941.