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.
form / Irish Volunteers, 1914 / James Carroll
Irish Volunteers enlistment form for James Carroll of 25 Main Street, Donnybrook, 11 June 1914. No. 43. One of a set of enlistment forms for the Irish Volunteers, Pembroke Area, Donnybrook. 3rd Battalion. Issued by Provisional Committee at the foundation meeting. 1914. Total of 270. Printed by...
form / Irish Volunteers, 1914 / Thomas Murphy
Irish Volunteers enlistment form for Thomas Murphy of 27 Byrne's Cottages, Clonskeagh, 16 July 1914. No. 102. One of a set of enlistment forms for the Irish Volunteers, Pembroke Area, Donnybrook. 3rd Battalion. Issued by Provisional Committee at the foundation meeting. 1914. Total of 270. Printed...
form / Irish Volunteers, 1914 / James J. Synnott
Irish Volunteers enlistment form for James J. Synnott of 4 Mount Pleasant Terrace, Rathmines, 30 July 1914. No. 193 / 259. One of a set of enlistment forms for the Irish Volunteers, Pembroke Area, Donnybrook. 3rd Battalion. Issued by Provisional Committee at the foundation meeting. 1914. Total of...
form / Irish Volunteers, 1914 / Patrick Dowling
Irish Volunteers enlistment form for Patrick Dowling of 23 Byrnes Cottages, Clonskeagh, 16 July 1914. No. 105. One of a set of enlistment forms for the Irish Volunteers, Pembroke Area, Donnybrook. 3rd Battalion. Issued by Provisional Committee at the foundation meeting. 1914. Total of 270. Printed...
form / Irish Volunteers, 1914 / Patrick Conway
Irish Volunteers enlistment form for Patrick Conway of 17 Main Street, Donnybrook, 4 June 1914. No. 25. One of a set of enlistment forms for the Irish Volunteers, Pembroke Area, Donnybrook. 3rd Battalion. Issued by Provisional Committee at the foundation meeting. 1914. Total of 270. Printed by...
form / Irish Volunteers, 1914 / Thomas Doyle
Irish Volunteers enlistment form for Thomas Doyle of 1 Quinn's Lane, Donnybrook, 4 June 1914. No. 15 One of a set of enlistment forms for the Irish Volunteers, Pembroke Area, Donnybrook. 3rd Battalion. Issued by Provisional Committee at the foundation meeting. 1914. Total of 270. Printed by 'The...
newspaper cutting / Irish Motor Drivers, 1920
Picture of Irish Motor Drivers' protest parade meeting the English Labour delegates on their 1st tour of Dublin (Henderson included), in 1920. Possibly a cutting from an American newspaper.
relic / Michael O'Hanrahan
Button taken from uniform of Michael O'Hanrahan on night before execution, 3 May 1916, and given by him to his sisters Eily and Cis in his cell at Kilmainham Gaol. Irish Volunteer tunic button, brass, set in brass frame as a relic, for 'Captain Micéal O'Hannracáin, executed 4th May 1916'. Reverse...
relic / Michael O'Hanrahan, 1916
Button taken from uniform of Michael O'Hanrahan on night before execution, 3 May 1916, and given by him to his sisters Eily and Cis in his cell at Kilmainham Gaol. Irish Volunteer tunic button, green leather, set in brass frame as a relic, for Captain Micéal O'Hannracáin, executed 4th May 1916....
photograph / Kingsbridge, June 1921
Photograph depicting a number of Black and Tan soldiers on a train engine - Steam Cab. No. 92 - at Kingsbridge, June 1921. Black and Tans were waiting for the Cork train to arrive in order to arrest driver who was suspected of carrying a message.
rifle / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916
RIC carbine rifle. Captured from R.I.C. by Irish Volunteers at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. Captured from Royal Irish Constabulary by Irish Volunteer Joseph Lawless at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916. Events detailed in his witness statement to the Bureau of Military History. A brass plaque added...
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar, 1920-21
Prison autograph book with signatures taken at Ballykinlar Internment Camp. 1920-1921.
pin badge / John MacBride
Popular pin badge of John MacBride. Metal with photograph insert.
jewellery / Inghinidhe na hÉireann, Maud Gonne MacBride
Brass brooch of Inghinidhe na hÉireann. Tara style. Of Maud Gonne MacBride. c. 1900 to 1914. Inscribed 'Inghinidhe na hÉireann' along top bar.
souvenir / Four Courts, 1922
Fifteen prints from EW.1069a - Engineering Handbook No. 1, Óglaigh na hÉireann, 1921, mounted on a card. The blocks were obtained mainly in the ruins of the Four Courts and at Island Bridge Barracks. Collected by Superintendent Daniel J. Stapelton.
photograph / Mount Street Bridge and Clanwilliam Place, 1916
Photograph showing the destruction at Mount Street Bridge and Clanwilliam House. Taken immediately after the Rising, 1916.
photograph / 25 Northumberland Road, 1916
Photograph showing the intersection between Haddington Road and Northumberland Road at Ballsbridge, Dublin. The house on the corner is Number 25, from where Michael Malone and Seamus Grace fought. Taken immediately after the Rising, 1916.
photograph / Thomas Moran
Photograph of Thomas Moran of Mulranny, Co. Mayo, the builder of the armoured car 'The Queen of the West', built by the Irregulars during the Civil War.
armband / Georgious Rex Volunteers, 1916
Armlet of the Officer's Training Corps, T.C.D., 1916. This force defended Trinity College Dublin during the 1916 Rising. Red flannel armlet with letters 'G.R.' in black, sewn on. 'G.R.' denotes the Georgious Rex Volunteers. On the back, written in ink, is 'OTC, T.C.D. 1916' (Officer Training Coprs...