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 / Liam Mellows, 1920-21
Traveller's Order Book, used by Liam Mellows. Limp cover, interleaved for carbon copies, with sheet bearing printed name etc. of Hely's Ltd., Dame St., Dublin (the suppliers) on cover. Originally had 100 pages numbered serially. Entries of orders, etc. in connection with drapery trade, dates...
photograph / Liam Mellows, U.S.A., 1917-1920
Photograph. Liam Mellows shown mounted on a white horse. Taken in U.S.A. during his time there between 1917 and 1920. Mounted, sepia tinted. 5.25 by 4 inches.
application form / Dáil Loan, 1919.
Printed form. Prospectus and form of application, Dáil Loan, 1919. Internal Loan. 3pp. One of two copies.
application form / Dáil Loan, 1919
Printed form. Prospectus and form of application, Dáil Loan, 1919. Internal Loan. 3pp. One of two copies.
pump / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916
Bicycle pump, black composition, marked "Humber cycles", 15.75" long, picked up by Donor on the site of the Battle of Ashbourne, April 28, 1916. (Found on the day of the battle, no indication of ownership, but she believed it to have belonged to a person engaged and took it away as a souvenir).
letter / Lewes Jail, 1917
Letter of Thomas Ashe to Miss M. Adrien, no sender's address, but written from Lewes Jail (Miss Adrien's information), dated February 12, 1917. Sent to Miss Adrien at the time by Miss Nora Ashe, sister of Thomas Ashe. Personal references and oblique references to situation. Written on both sides of...
bullet casing / Battle of Ashbourne, 1916
Cartridge case, used in the Battle of Ashbourne, 28 April, 1916. Brass, base marked R- broad arrow -L- 12-VII, bore c..303, top crimped, length 2.4" and picked up that evening by Miss M. Adrien on the road from Rathgate.
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth gun running, 1914. Photograph, original, "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Negative, Print, Enlargement. "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of photographs taken by Donor during the voyage of the...photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth gun running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original print. "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Negative, Print, Enlargement. "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of photographs taken by Donor...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, View off the shore, south of England. Part of British fleet in background; row-boats in foreground. Negative and print. View off the shore, south of England. Part of British fleet in background; row-boats in foreground. From Collection of eighteen...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, view of Howth harbour from the entrance, possibly taken as yacht entered harbour. Negative, Print, Enlargement, view of Howth harbour from the entrance. (Taken as yacht entered harbour?) From Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original, view of Howth harbour from the entrance, possibly taken as yacht entered harbour. Negative, Print, Enlargement, view of Howth harbour from the entrance. (Taken as yacht entered harbour?) From Collection of eighteen negatives, and...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Showing volunteers marching along pier at Howth. Negative, Print, Enlargement. From deck of yacht. Showing volunteers marching along pier at Howth. From Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Figures on deck of yacht in foreground. Negative and print. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Figures on deck of yacht in foreground. From Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Negative, Print, Enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Members of Fianna Éireann on pier stretching out hands for rifles from yacht. Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Negative, Print, Enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Members of Fianna Éireann on pier stretching out hands for rifles from yacht. Collection of eighteen...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Negative, print, enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Figures, probably volunteers, but some local boatmen, on pier above yacht. Figure on deck of yacht in foreground. From...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original, From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Negative, print, enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Figures, probably volunteers, but some local boatmen, on pier above yacht. Figure on deck of yacht in...
photograph / Howth gun-running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Showing members of crew, and volunteers on board and on pier. Group of Volunteers with rifles to right. Negative, print, enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Showing members of...