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.
photograph / Howth gun running, 1914
Photograph, Howth gun running, July 1914. Photograph in black and white, of scene during march from Howth after gun-running 1914. Picture shows rifle-carrying Volunteers marching after horse and cart, driven by two Irish Volunteers and presumably a Fianna boy. 8.5 by 6.5 inches.
painting / May Dawn, 1916
Framed oil painting entitled 'May Dawn' by Seán Keating P.R.H.A. Depicting an Irish Volunteer awaiting execution in Kilmainham Jail in May 1916. This painting was commissioned by Liam Gogan, then Keeper of Irish Antiquities at the National Museum, in 1952. The subject of the painting is Edward...
photograph / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1921
Full plate photograph of prisoners at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, about 1921, showing 24 men in four rows at a junction of two corrugated iron sheds.
photograph / Ballykinlar Orchestra, 1920
Full plate photograph of prisoners at Ballykinlar Orchestra, 1920, showing 23 men in four rows, most of them with violins. Martin Walton is the bearded man standing on right.
photograph / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920
Full plate photograph of prisoners at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920, showing 34 men in four rows. The man on the right of the second row from the top is Joe McGrath. Taken in the open.
photograph / Kit Mullan, Ballykinlar
Studio photograph of Kit Mullan, the Lord Mayor of Ballykinlar. Full plate photograph, showing him seated in wooden armchair dressed in his 'mayoral robes'.
drawing / The Birth of the Irish Republic
The original drawing, 'The Birth of the Irish Republic', by Walter Paget, 1916. Several of the principal leaders of the Rising, including Thomas Clarke, James Connolly wounded on stretcher, Winifred Carney and the Pearse brothers, are depicted in the blazing General Post Office in the final days of...
handbill / Free State and British Allies, 1922
Civil War Proclamation. Republican propaganda, 1922 - attack on Four Courts. 'Free State and British Allies'.
photograph / Suffragettes, Mountjoy Jail, 1914
(Cashman 2) Suffragettes, meeting outside Mountjoy Jail, 3 May 1914. With inset of Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington.
photograph / Irish National Volunteers, Ranelagh, 1914
(Cashman 3) Photograph of Parade of Irish National Volunteers, Ranelagh, 24 May 1914.
photograph / Irish National Volunteers, 1915
(Cashman 4) Photograph of irish National Volunteers at rifle practice at their rifle range in Upper Abbey Street. 1915.
photograph / National Volunteer Review, 1915
(Cashman 5) Photograph of John Redmond at National Volunteer Review, Phoenix Park, 1915.
photograph / G.P.O. clock, 1916
(Cashman 9) Photograph of G.P.O. clock, showing the time it stopped, Easter Week, 1916.
photograph / The O'Rahilly's motor car, Prince's Street, 1916
(Cashman 10) Photograph of the Remains of The O'Rahilly's motor car, Prince's St., Easter Week, 1916.
photograph / Prisoners marching to the North Wall,, 1916
(Cashman 13) 1916 Rising. Photograph of Irish prisoners being escorted to North Wall, Easter, 1916.
photograph / Enniscorthy prisoners, Kilmainham, 1916
(Cashman 14) 1916 Rising. Photograph of two Enniscorthy prisoners being brought to Kilmainham, after the surrender, Easter 1916.
photograph / Manfield's corner, 1916
(Cashman 17) 1916 Rising. Photograph of taking down buildings after Easter Week, 1916. Manfield's corner, O'Connell Street.
photograph / Prisoner's Release, Westland Row Station, 1917
(Cashman 25) Prisoners' Release. Photograph of arrival of Irish prisoners at Westland Row on release, June 1917. The General Amnesty in June 1917. The Republican Prisoners received a tremendous reception on their arrival at Westland Row Railway Station. The scene outside the station.
photograph / General Amnesty, Countess Markievicz, 1917
(Cashman 27) Prisoners' Release. Photograph of Countess Markievicz driving to meeting, O'Connel Street, after release of prisoners, 1917.