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.
flag / General Post Office, 1916 Rising
Fragment of woollen textile, originally from the white coloured portion of the tricolour flag that flew over the General Post Office during the 1916 Rising.
flag / Four Courts, 1916
Flag flown over The Four Courts, Dublin, during the 1916 Rising. Taken on 30th April 1916. Green field with yellow harp.
flag / Boland's Mill Garrison, 1916
A fragment of flag which flew over Boland's Mills during Easter Week. the flag was originally a green field with a gold harp. Consisting of a strip of green woollen cloth. The Boland's Mills flag was flown from the turret of the distillery in the complex of buildings to distract attention from the...
flag / Marrowbone Lane, 1916
Flag flown by the Irish Forces at Marrowbone Lane Distillery Dublin during Easter Week, 1916. Gold harp on green field.
flag / R.A.M.C., 1916 Rising
Red Cross flag of the Royal Army Medical Corps (British Army) used with a Guinness lorry during the 1916 Rising in Dublin city to transport the injured to hospitals, and at Portobello Barracks. The donor, James Geoghan, served with the above unit and was in charge of the burial and disinternment of...
flag / Fianna Éireann, B Company
Flag of B Company, Fianna Éireann. Organised by Liam Mellows. Liam Mellows was the first captain, followed by Con Colbert. The flag designed by Colbert in 1915. Lettering was in gold. In a blue field 'Fianna Éireann' over a yellow rayed sunburst enclosing Company/B. The reverse has a plain yellow...
tricolour / Mendicity Institute, 1916
Tricolour flag, ex Mendicity Institute, 1916. Flag of green, white and orange (or orange white and green) arranged horizontally. Received in the Mendicity Institute Dublin immediately after the surrender in Easter Week 1916 by the father of Reverand M. L. Ferrar,- a medical officer who had been...
flag / John Daly, Limerick
John Daly's flag, Limerick. Flag, green cloth 89 inches by 55 inches approximately, with a centre-piece consisting of harp with five strings, made up of green, white and yellow cloth. On one corner of flag is stitched a white envelope on which is handwritten in ink the following - 'This flag was...