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.
card / Kevin Barry, Mountjoy, 1920
Portion of a letter to Kevin Barry. Portions of a letter card bearing the address of Gerrard Barry Esq., Mountjoy Prision, Dublin. The portions bear the post mark of Navan dated the 12th October 1920 and the initials of the Governor of the Prison, dated 13.10.'20. They were picked up from the floor...
memorandum / Weekly Memorandum No.3, 25 Oct 1920
Weekly Memorandum No.3, issued by Irish Republican Army General Head Quarters. Signed Adjutant General dated 25 October 1920. Two copies. Typed.
prison art / Knutsford Jail, 1916
Drawings of prison cell, Knutsford Jail. Made by F. Byrne. Two pen sketches on one sheet - done on prison paper - framed. 1916.
reproduction / College of Surgeons Garrison, surrender, 1916
Photograph of the painting by Kathleen Fox showing the surrender of the College of Surgeons Garrison, 1916.
declaration / Anti-Conscription Declaration, 1918
Anti-Conscription Declaration, parchment, signed at Mansion House, 18th April, 1918.
book / Broken Glory
Book, 'Broken Glory' by Eva Gore Booth, with the cover painted by Countess Markievicz.
prison autograph album / Lewes Gaol, 1916-17
Copy of Dinneen's Smaller Dictionary, the inside pages, front and back inscribed, autographed, with the names and sentences of the men imprisoned in Lewes Jail, 1916 to 1917, after the Rising.
photograph / Thomas Clarke
Photograph of Thomas Clarke before his imprisonment. This photograph originally belonged to Paddy Jordan, Strabane. See letter to him from Thomas Clarke in the Collection. Youthful. Framed & glazed passe partout. Photographed by J.J. Thompson, Omagh. Circa 4 inches by 2 1/2 inches.
photograph / Thomas Clarke, 1899
Photograph of Tom Clarke on his release from prison, September 1899. Autographed by Thomas Clarke with his own name and the initials H.H.W. - Henry Hammond Wilson - his alias.
box / Reverend Michael J. Griffin, 1920
Metal trunk, the property of the late Reverend Michael J. Griffin, murdered by Crown Forces in Galway, 1920.
poster / Stop Press, no. 5
Copy of Stop Press - 'War News', dated 1st July 1922; Republican propaganda.
photograph / Kevin O'Higgins, 1927
Photograph of the lying-in-state of Kevin O'Higgins in the Mansion House, 1927. Shows open coffin.
last statement / Kilmainham Gaol, 9 May 1916
Last statement of James Connolly, 9 May 1916. Handwritten in pencil. Taken out of Kilmainham Gaol by his daughter Nora after their last visit before his execution.
photograph / Four Courts, 1922
Four Courts. Photograph of ruins in Dublin after the Civil War, depicting the Four Courts, with a large hole through the facade to the right of the portico, and the dome absent.
photograph / City of Dublin Whiskey Co., 1922
City of Dublin Whiskey Co. (Adam Scott & Co.), photograph of ruins in Dublin after the Irish Civil War. 1922
photograph / P.J. Keogh, 1922
Sandbag barricade at the shop of P.J. Keogh. A Dublin street barricade manned by what are probably Irish Free State Army solders. Taken in Dublin during the Civil War. In the background a group of children are gathered to watch.
photograph / Dublin, Civil War
Photograph of a street, with a road barricade visible in the distance, taken from an interior space through a window. Civil War, Dublin.
photograph / Dublin, Civil War
Photograph of ruins in Dublin after the Irish Civil War. 1922.
photograph / Dublin, Civil War
Photograph of destroyed buildings, possibly taken in Dublin during the Civil War.