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.
plaque / Eamon de Valera
Circular Plaster Plague of Eamon de Valera. 6 inches in diameter, showing bust in profile to left with SME (?) under shoulder within a laurel border. On reverse within a laurel border across, IRISH/REPUBLICAN ARMY/COMMANDANT/ED. DE VALERA/SENTENCED TO DEATH 1916/COMMUTED TO PENCIL SERVITUDE...
jacket / Fianna Éireann, 1917
1st Lieutenant's tunic of the Fianna Éireann, 1917. Dark green with two rows of 4 plain brass buttons down the front, and one plain button on each cuff. On each shoulder strap is a mauve coloured cloth with a white band, the strap held by a plain brass button.
photograph / Cathal Brugha
Photograph of Cathal Brugha, in uniform, mounted on card.
rifle / The Aud, 1916
Mosin, Russian rifle salvaged from 'The Aud', 1916. Said to have been used as evidence in preliminary trial of 'Casement' in Dublin under Major H.M. Fraser the Provost Marshal in Dublin, 1916, and kept by Major Fraser as a keepsake afterwards. Russian inscription and the no. 194770 stamped on...
photograph / Harry Boland
Photograph of Commandant Harry Boland.
postcard photograph / Martin Savage
Commemorative postcard with photograph of Lieutenant Martin Savage of the Dublin Brigade. Savage fought at the Four Courts in 1916, and was killed in action in December 1919 during an ambush at Ashtown, Co. Meath. Within a trophy of tricolours cap and bayonet over a harp and a wolfhound and a...
photograph / Dick McKee & Peadar Clancy
Photograph of Dick McKee & Peadar Clancy. 23" x 19.5" in brown mottled frame with gilt edge. Marked underneath 'Dick McKee, Peadar Clancy Executed Dublin Castle 1920'. Composite photograph.
photograph / Liam Mellows
Photograph of Liam Mellows.
cartoon / The Irish Recruit
Postcard print of 'The Irish Recruit', cartoon by Cathal MacDowell.
photograph / Ned Daly & James O'Sullivan
Snapshot photograph of Ned Daly and James O'Sullivan. O'Sullivan married Laura, sister of Ned Daly, in 1918. He himself had been imprisoned in Lewes Gaol in 1917.
Mounted photograph / Liam Lynch
Printed photograph of Liam Lynch. General Liam Lynch, Chief of Staff, I.R.A., Killed in Action at Knockfallen, Co. Tipperary, April 10 1923.
photograph / Arthur Griffiths and John MacBride, South Africa, c. 1899 to 1902
Photograph of Arthur Griffiths and John MacBride. Full plate photograph, taken in South Africa around the period of the Boer War 1899 to 1902. Shown standing outside a hut with four other men.
photograph / John MacBride
Studio photograph, full plate, of John MacBride taken in Paris in November 1900. He is seated with four men standing behind him, the one on the right reclining against a table.
postcard photograph / Irish Peace Delegates, 1921
Postcard photograph of the Irish Peace Delegates. The five plenipotentiaries, Eamonn Duggan, Michale Collins, Arthur Griffith, Robert Barton, and George Gavin Duffy. Individual portrait photographs in composite form.
photograph / Countess Markievicz, Liberty Hall, June 1917
Postcard photograph of Countess Markievicz being welcomed back to Liberty Hall after the General Release in June 1917.
postcard photograph / Dr Patrick McCartan
Postcard photograph of Dr Patrick McCartan of Co. Tyrone,, after his passage as a stoker on a tramp steamer to present the Irish Claim in America.
photograph / Irish Race Congress, Paris, 1922
Group photograph of the delegates of the Irish Race Congress in Paris, 21 to 28 January 1922.
photograph / Arthur Griffith and Children
Photograph of Arthur Griffith walking up a garden pathway toward a house with his two children, Ita and Nevin, on his release from prison. Undated. Griffth was imprisoned in 1916, Gloucester Jail in 1919 and Mountjoy Prison in 1921.
photograph / Mansion House Conference, July 1921
Photograph of Eamon de Valera arriving at the Mansion House Conference, July 1921. Showing de Valera surrounded by a group of people.