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 / de Valera & Mrs. Pearse, 1922
Photograph of Eamon de Valera and Mrs. Pearse seated in the back of an open car looking to left. Facing them in the car - seated higher - are Frank Aiken and another while in front is a driver and another man in the act of standing up to speak to Aiken. The car is surrounded by cheering crowds...
 
photograph / Loughane Brothers, 1920
Loughane Brothers. Photograph of one in coffin as found, having been murdered by the Black and Tans, 26 November 1920, and buried in a bog in Co. Galway. 6.5" x 4.9 ins.
 
receipt / 1st Northern Division, 1921
I.R.A. levy receipt, 3 November 1921. Issued by E Co., 3rd Batt., No.2 Brigade, 1st Northern Division, I.R.A.
 
letter / O/C Gresham Hotel, 30 June 1922
Irish Civil War despatch from Oscar Traynor on paper headed 'Óglaigh na hÉireann Headquarters, Dublin City' dated 30 June 1922, addressed to 'O/C Gresham Hotel' (Patrick Morrissey) and giving instructions 'to break away to your position'.
 
photograph / Mary O'Hanrahan
Studio photograph of Mrs Mary O'Hanrahan, the mother of Michael and Henry. Keogh Brothers photographic print, undated, mounted, showing the lady seated, wearing what appears to be mourning dress.
 
typescript / Liam Mellows' Last Letter, copy
With contemporary typed transcript of Liam Mellows last letter to his mother before execution, 8 December 1922. Copy of the original EW.2378
 
violin / Liam Mellows
Liam Mellows' violin. In case. The case is in comparatively intact but the violin itself is in fragments and the bow strings and most of the violin strings are missing.
 
photograph / Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, February 1922
Photograph of Harry Boland, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis, Mansion House 21 February 1922.
 
recruitment handbill / Irish Volunteers, For Ireland in Ireland, 1914
Irish Volunteer recruitment leaflet c.1914. Headed "For Ireland in Ireland" giving a list of drill halls and meeting nights of the Third Battalion, Dublin Brigade.
 
letter / Republican Court, 1922
Republican Court Document 1922. Letter from Seán Ó hUadhaigh to The Clerk South City Parish Court on 13 May 1922 re Jane Ryan v. J. Doyle.
 
letter / Republican Court, 1922
Republican Court Document 1922. Letter of 5 May, 1922 from P.H. Reilly Solicitor to District Justices of the South City of Dublin, 41 York Street, Dublin.
 
letter / Republican Court, 1922
Republican Court Document 1922. Letter of 16 May, 1922 from Gerald R. Fitzgerald, Solicitor, to Mr. John Burke, Registrar, Republican Parish Court, 41 York Street, Dublin re 'The Dublin Union v Tierney.'
 
letter / Republican Court, 1922
Republican Court Document 1922. Letter of 16 May, 1922 from Gerald R. Fitzgerald, Solicitor, to Mr. John Burke, Registrar, Republican Parish Court, 41 York Street, Dublin re 'Barnardo v. Kelly.'
 
photograph / Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle, January 1922
Photograph of the Sinn Féin Ard Comhairle, 12 January 1922. Taken in the Mansion House, including Eamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Austin Stack, and Darrell Figgis.
 
receipt / Republican Court, 1922
Republican Court Document 1922. Receipt of 19 April 1922 from Dublin Total Abstinence League and Workmen's Club, 41 York Street, for £16.5.0 in respect of rent of premises for 'South Dublin Republican Court' to 1st March 1922.'
 
receipt / Republican Court, 1921
Republican Court Document 1921. Receipt of 31 December 1921 from Dublin Total Abstinence League and Workmen's Club, 41 York Street, for £25 in respect of rent of premises for 'South Dublin Republican Court'.
 
receipt / Republican Court, 1922
Republican Court Document 1922. Receipt of 15 May 1922 from Dublin Total Abstinence League to 'The Registrar South Dublin Court, 41 York Street' enclosing receipts for rent paid 'and also in respect of grant made... towards the redecoration of the rooms used in connection with the court.'
 
receipt / Republican Court, 1922
Republican Court Document 1922. Receipt of 1 May 1922 from Dublin Total Abstinence League and Workmen's Club, 41 York Street to 'the Justices, South Dublin Republican Court' for £30 in respect of grant towards the redecoration of the rooms used by the court.'
 
book / The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson
The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson. Inscribed by Joseph Plunkett to Grace Gifford on Easter Sunday 1916 with cover bearing her address and marker at page 183 'Grace of the Way'.