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.
photograph / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
View of a door at the end of a passage and beneath a glass roof barricaded from the inside with tables and garden seats in the Royal College of Surgeons after the Rising, 1916.
photograph / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
View of a hallway seen through a doorway (possibly of the library), of a broken door panel, Royal College of Surgeons after the 1916 Rising.
photograph / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Photograph of haul of ammunition, explosives, etc., found in the Royal College of Surgeons on its occupation by British Forces after the Rising. Tin-can bombs, rifle and shotgun ammunition, a haversack, uniform, etc. Left behind by the Irish Citizen Army after the surrender.
duty roster / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Writing table which was used as a notice board by Republican Forces occupying The Royal College of Surgeons, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin during The Rising 1916. Consisting of a sheet of porcelain, white, framed in wood, 11.5" x 9" overall. It appears to have been the property of the College and was...
cap badge / Irish Citizen Army, 1916
A hand-cut cap badge made by a member of the Irish Citizen Army, 1916. With intertwined lettering.
prison art / Newbridge Internment Camp, 1922-23
A harp carved from bone by a prisoner at Newbridge Internment Camp, 1922-23. Harp 12" by 7" ornamented with gold paint and with inscription "Newbridge Internment Camp, 1922-23". On cast bronze pedestal, 2" high.
souvenir / Reading Gaol, 1916
Prison mug brought by Darrell Figgis from Reading Jail, 1916, as a souvenir. Ordinary type prisoner's mug. Pottery mug, with white glaze, circular base. Printed in black on one side on a band, 'Prison Commission', a broad arrow within this band. Painted black on the base. Stamped with a crown...
photographic slide / Irish Prisoners released from British Jails, 1917
Photographic slide. Group of ten persons, Irish Prisoners released from British Jails, 1917. Probably taken near Oxford. Included are Sean T. O'Kelly and Darrell Figgis.
souvenir / Frongoch, 1916
Rugby football used by the prisoners to play Gaelic football in Frongoch, 1916. Brought out of the camp on their release in December 1916. It originally bore the inscription "1916 Frongoch", marks remain where this was defaced by some ladies in whose possession it was during the War of...
photograph / George Geohegan
Portrait photograph of George Geohegan, of the Irish Citizen Army, who was killed in action at City Hall, 1916. Half-length photograph, showing him in the uniform of St. James' Brass and Reed Band, of which he was a member. He was an ex-Dublin Fusilier and had fought in the South African War...
mobilisation order / Irish Citizen Army, Sunday 23 April 1916
Special mobilisation order of the Irish Citizen Army, for all ranks to parade at Liberty Hall with full equipment on Sunday at 3.30, signed James Connolly.
photograph / Irish Volunteers, 1915
Armed Irish Volunteer Squad 1915. Mounted photograph showing 12 uniformed men armed with lee Enfield rifles. Headed "Special Section A Co. 4th Batt. Dublin Brigade Winners of trophy at St. Enda's, Rathfarnham 5th Sept. 1915". Names beneath - Back - Sean Treacy, Paudge Ó Broin, Gabriel Murray, Brian...
photograph / Irish Volunteers, 1915
Armed Irish Volunteer Squad 1915. Mounted photograph showing 12 uniformed men armed with lee Enfield rifles. 'Special Section A Co. 4th Battalion, Dublin Brigade. Winners of trophy at St. Enda's, Rathfarnham 5 September 1915. The names of the men are inscribed on another version of this photograph...
buckshot mould / Irish Volunteers, 1918
Buckshot or slug mould, made in 1918 and used by Irish Volunteers. Iron, consisting of two shafts, each 17" long, attached by iron pin forming a hinge. For half the length of each the portion towards the hinge is oblong in section. Remaining portion of each of circular section and forming handle....
internment order / Frongoch, Robert Holland, 1916
Internment order under regulation 14B of the Defence of the Realm Act, served on Robert Holland in 1916. Notice regarding the order and conditions under which appeal may be made. One page, type duplicated, particulars typed in. No date, but 1916. For internment in Frongoch.
playing card / Thomas MacDonagh, Kilmainham, 1916
A pack of playing cards found in the cell of Thomas MacDonagh the day after his execution, Kilmainham, 3 May 1916. Given some time after 1916 to Very Rev. D.A. Crotty, C.S.A. by a nun who was a sister of Thomas McDonagh. Fr. Crotty in turn, gave the cards to his sister, Mrs. J. Norton, mother of...
musical instrument / Michael Mallin, 1916
Michael Mallin's concert flute. With a silver plate attached, bearing the inscription 'By Capt. G. Hewson. Presented to Band 18th R.I. Rifles, taken at Liberty Hall, Dublin. Rebellion, 1916'. This flute formed part of the contents of a house which were purchased by Mr Rupert Coffey in about 1939....
pamphlet / Prisoners of War
Printed pamphlet. Joseph M. Byrne. - 'Prisoners of War'. Dublin, The Art Depot, 1917. 59 pages. Irish prisoners in Frongoch and Wakefield.
pamphlet / James Connolly, A Study of his Work and Worth
Printed pamphlet O'Connor, Gerald: "James Connolly, A Study of his Work and Worth" Dublin, printed Curtis. No date, but probably 1917. 24 pages.