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.
button / Irish Volunteers, 1914
Set of nine buttons, 5 large, 4 small, from an Irish Volunteer uniform worn by Mr Edward James Lynch, 1914. Brass. Design of harp with winged maiden. No. I.V. lettering.
class report / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Class report forms (two pages, duplicate ruled and headed) Ballykinlar No. 2 Camp, 1921. The subjects of instruction stated are "Mensuration A" and "Mensuration B", the actual subject was musketry.class report / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Class report forms (two pages, duplicate ruled and headed) Ballykinlar No. 2 Camp, 1921. The subjects of instruction stated are "Mensuration A" and "Mensturation B", the actual subject was musketry.
photograph / Ballykinlar Camp No. 1, 1921
Photograph taken in Ballykinlar Camp No. 1, 1921. Showing the huts and the spot where Joseph Tormey and Patrick Sloane were shot on 17 January 1921. West Black, Camp No. 1. Photograph taken by Thomas F. Fitzpatrick.
photograph / Fowler Orange Hall
Ulster Volunteers, two photographs of a collection of arms discovered in the Fowler Orange Hall, Parnell Square, Dublin, in the course of alterations carried out by the Irish government (? date). The hall was temporarily occupied by Republican forces in 1916 and 1922, when the arms in question...
signature / Countess Markievicz, 1917
Leaf from the hotel register of the Imperial Hotel, Monastereven with the signature of Countess Markievicz under date July 11, 1917. Said by Donor to have been entered during a visit of Countess to the area in connection with the Suffragette movement. Building formerly owned by an aunt of the...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. This and the four items following are said by Professor W.N. Rae to have been left behind in the Royal College of Surgeons on the surrender. Long flat blade, swelling to centre, but with no midrib, with bridle-cutting attachment, hooked, projecting 4.52 and edged...
photograph / 10 Westmoreland Street, Dáil Éireann, c.1919-21
Photograph of Dáil Meeting Place. No. 10 Westmoreland Street in the heart of the city showing one of the secret offices of Dáil Éireann. Photograph by Keogh Brothers.
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. Found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. Poker shaped blade, quadilateral in section, sharply pointed, altering shape to cylindrical where it joins shaft; held to shaft by cylindrical collar. The pike-head proper is itself socketted, but...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike, found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. A second pike of the same type as EW.1200 - Poker shaped blade, quadilateral in section, sharply pointed, altering shape to cylindrical where it joins shaft; held to shaft by cylindrical collar. The pike-head proper is itself...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. Found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. Long, flat blade, 12.75" long, 1.5" broad at the butt tapering to blunt point. Attached to shaft (4'1.5" long by 1.2" diam.) by a tang. The attachment strengthened by a brass cylindrical collar,...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. Found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. A second pike of same type and dimensions as EW.1202 -Long, flat blade, 12.75" long, 1.5" broad at the butt tapering to blunt point. Attached to shaft (4'1.5" long by 1.2" diam.) by a tang. The...
souvenir / James' Street Harbour, 1916
Section of cable from James's Street Harbour, Dublin. It was struck by a bullet during Easter Week, 1916. and almost severed. Obtained by the owner from the Vincent Burke mentioned in EW.1208.
tunic / Captain Robert de Coure, I.C.A., 1916
Irish Citizen Army uniform tunic. Worn in the Royal College of Surgeons,Easter Week 1916, by Captain Robert de Coure. Dark green serge wool fabric with dark green leather buttons - five down the front of the tunic and one on each pocket flap (four), and on shoulder epaulettes (two).
belt / Captain Robert de Coure, I.C.A., 1916
Belt of an Irish Citizen Army Uniform; Royal College of Surgeons, Easter Week 1916. Worn by Captain Robert de Coure. Dark brown leather with snake clasp, in the Royal Irish Constabulary belt clasp style.
shell fragment / Four Courts, 1922
Piece of a shell picked up at the Four Courts during or after the bombardment, 1922. Irregular fragment of brass, c.2.5" * 2.25" * 1.25". Obtained by R. Stewart from the Vincent Burke mentioned in EW.1208.
revolver / Mallow Military Barracks, 1920
A revolver captured at Mallow Military Barracks, 1920. American Smith & Wesson 6-shot .45 calibre revolver, seemingly an earlier model than that of 1917 - the barrel is longer than the 1917 model. Solid frame with swingout cylinder. On circular brass plates on butt and again on frame monogram of...
poster / Éire / West Britain / Gaelic League, 1920
Gaelic League Propaganda Poster c. 1920. Coloured poster, printed. Two panels with a sunburst between them. On the left, standing figure of Éire against a map of Ireland with figure representing Ireland with union jack on shoulders against a map of Ireland, with lettering "West Britain" on top....
attendance book / St Enda's College, 1913
Special register of students under the age of 14 and not under the age of 12 years, 1913-14 for St Enda's College, Rathfarnham. Entries and two notes in hand of Patrick Pearse.