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.
letter / Sister Anna Sproule, 1916 Rising
Letter on War Office headed paper to P.K. Sproule, next of kin to the late Anna Sproule, dated July 1920. Forwarding to him the Royal Red Cross (2nd Class) medal awarded to Miss A. Sproule, A.R.R.C. in recognition of her valuable service. Part of the paperwork relating to the awarding of medals...
letter / Sister Anna Sproule, 1916 Rising
Letter on War Office headed paper to P.K. Sproule, next of kin to the late Anna Sproule, dated 5 July 1920. Informing that the Royal Red Cross (2nd Class) medal has been awarded to Miss Anna Sproule, and requesting that he receive it. Part of the paperwork relating to the awarding of medals to...
Christmas card / Auxiliary R.I.C., 1921
Christmas card, printed, from Q Company, Auxiliary Division, Royal Irish Constabulary, at H.Q.-L. & N. W. Hotel, Dublin. Dated 1921. From Uncle Sam to Mother, George and Vera with best love. Found as part of the paperwork relating to the awarding of medals to Sister Anna Sproule, 1916....
fragment / Aud, 1916
Fragment of wood inscribed ‘Wreckage of rifle from German Munition Ship. Ballycrone near Poer Head, Cork. Got by me on shore May 2 1916 F.J. Westropp’.
tin can bomb / 1916 Rising
Home-made bomb, of the type used in the 1916 period. Bourneville chocolate tin (marked on bottom) filled with iron shrapnel fragments, which would also have co0ntained a black gunpowder. Top burst due to mis-firing.
ammunition / Home-made, 1916 Rising
Home-made grenade, fashioned from something like a section of iron piping or a large iron rivet, scored in sections on the outside. Hollow interior, with screw at either end, the base screw fixed and the top screw holding in place a fuse with a wooden plug. 1916 period.
notice / Public Notice Arms and Ammunition, 1916 Rising
Public Notice Re: Arms and Ammunition. Signed General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell, General Commander in Chief, The Forces in Ireland, Headquarters Irish Command, dated 2nd May 1916. Printed by Powell Press, 22 Parliament Street, Dublin.
brief case / Thomas J. Clarke
Bag or briefcase, belonging to Thomas J. Clarke. Brown leather in snakeskin pattern with a brass alloy metal clasp. The remains of an adhesive sticker on the outide bodu with the number '...02'. On the base are pieces of red sealing or candle wax attached. Single handle. Clasp fixed in locked...
photograph / War of Independence
Set of four photographs, depicting the surrender of rebels after incident in War of Independence, armoured cars, British troops loading rebels into the back of an open car, Rebels coming out of a building to surrender, and a group of women, one wearing a mourning veil, talking to British troops...
photograph / 1916 Rising, aftermath
Set of four photographs, of Dublin after the Easter Rising, two of city centre buildings, one of destroyed machinery (maybe a press from the G.P.O.), and one of a government (possibly early Dáil?) meeting.
prison autograph album / Belfast Prison & Derry, 1940
Autograph book, with republican prisoners' inscriptions made in Derry and Belfast Prison, dated 1940. Light brown coloured paper cover.
internment order / Edward Martin, Frongoch, 1916
Frongach internment order for Edward Martin of St. Mary's Terrace, Athlone, post 1916 Rising.
prison art / C. MacDongal, Frongach 1916
Sketch, pencil drawing of C. MacDongal, by W. Murray, 20 October 1916, in Frongach Internment Camp.
prison art / Prisoner art
Sketch, pencil drawing by Cathal MacDowell. Prisoner art. Place of detention not stated, but probably Frongoch, 1916.
photograph / 1919-22
Set of four photographs, Eamonn de Valera leaving Leinster House, Rory O'Connor address the Dublin Brigade, I.R.A., April 1922, at Smithfield, a group of men, one in uniform, including Liam Mellows. Also, funeral with Michael Collins as pallbearer (Arthur Griffith's funeral).
/ Dáil Eireann delegates, 1921
Page from "L'Illustration", 24 December 1921. Photograph of Dáil Éireann delegates. Cathal Brugha, Arthur Griffith, Eamon de Valera, Count Plunkett, Eoin MacNeill, William Cosgrave, Michael Collins, Laurence Ginnell and Ernest Blythe.
photograph / Boland's Mills Garrison, surrender
Photograph of the surrender of the Boland's Mills Garrison, marching down road with white flag leading. Eamon de Valera visible in forefront. 30 April 1916.
prison autograph album / Belfast Prison, 1940
Autograph book, with republican prisoners' inscriptions made in Belfast Prison, dated 1940. Light brown coloured plastic cover.
photograph / 1916 Rising, aftermath
Set of four photographs, Dublin, 1916 Rising to War of Independence; an open armoured car with four British troop with machine gun, Red Cross ambulance with medics, the surrender of rebels from a building, and the scene outside Kilmainham (some duplicates).