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.
postcard photograph / Dáil Éireann, 1st
Postcard photograph of members of Dáil Éireann, An Chéad Tionól, 21 Eanáir, 1919. 1st Dail, 21 January 1919.
photograph / Desmond Ryan
Photograph of Desmond Ryan as a young man, in civilian attire. Early 20th century.
photograph / Liam Mellows, James O'Mara, U.S.A., 1919
Photograph of Liam Mellows, James O'Mara and another man, taken in the U.S.A., about 1919. Full plate size photograph.
photograph / Betsy Gray Sluagh, Fianna Eireann, 1914
Full plate photograph of the Betsy Gray Sluagh of Fianna Eireann, or Fianna Girl Scouts Belfast Group, in 1914. Showing Aideen Connolly (Mrs. Ward) in centre of back row and Ina Connolly (Mrs. Heron) and Lily Kempson (Mrs. McAlerney) on either side of front group. On the back of the original is...
photograph / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920
Full plate photograph of 25 prisoners in Ballykinlar Camp in 1920 showing the men (from "C" Coy. Hut 16) in civilian clothes in four rows. Another shot of EWP.195 under which the names of all these in the photograph are given - First Row (top) - Edward Travers, James McArdle, Wm. Kelly, Michael...
mortar grenade / Experimental, Limerick, 1920
Experimental grenade for trench mortar made at Keelogues, Co. Limerick in 1920. The mortar had been captured in North Cork and was brought to Keelogues to see if suitable ammunition could be made for it. The fuse on the grenades as made were to be ignited, the grenade then dropped into the mortar...
photograph / Irish Free State Army, Cork, August 1922
Photograph of four members of the Irish Free State Army who were with Michael Collins on his last trip, taken in a town in Cork. August 1922.
photograph / Auxiliary Police, Dublin, 1920
Photograph of two Auxiliary Police, a DMP Constable and a British Army soldiers outside Lawless and Heron's Bicycle Shop in Parnell Street, Dublin, 1920. This photograph was taken after a raid on the shop.
photograph / Dublin guards under fire, Cork, 1922
Photograph of Dublin guards under fire in Cork in 1922. Showing two soldiers on the roadway shooting towards the house on a hill.
photograph / 'The Hooded Terror', c. 1922
Photograph of 'The Hooded Terror' an armoured car used c. 1922. Photograph taken on a town or village street. Side of car marked A.L.5, ... Depot, Portobello.
photograph / Irish Free State Army, Cork, 1922
Photograph of car commandeered by the Irish Free State Army in Co. Cork in 1922. Taken by the local doctor, it shows three men in uniform in the car.
diary / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Diary of Easter Week, 1916, kept by Mr. D.H. Oliver who was manager of the Metropole Hotel at the beginning of the Rising. 5 page jotter, written in pencil.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from the Manager of the Metropole Hotel (D.H. Oliver), to the Officer Commanding, GPO., Dublin on 25 April 1916 referring to sniping, arms and requesting information re depature of guests for England. Typescript on hotel headed notepaper.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from Manager of the Metropole Hotel (D.H. Oliver) to the Officer Commanding, GPO., Dublin, on 25 April 1916. Requesting passes for a list of named guests. Typescript.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from James Connolly to the Manager of the Metropole Hotel, D.H. Oliver, dated 25 April 1916. With a suggested route for guests leaving and offering to supply them with a written pass. Typescript with holograph signature.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from James Connolly to Manager of Metropole Hotel (D.H. Oliver) on 25 April 1916 reading 'If you send us in typed applications for passes, giving the name and destination of each person we will sign them for you' and bearing holograph signature.
ordnance map / Galway and the Aran Islands, Liam Mellows
Ordnance Survey Road Map of Galway and the Aran Islands. Sheet 14. Scale ½ inch to one mile. Published by the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, England. Marked Crown Copyright Reserved. Reduced from the one inch map of 1899 – 1901.
photograph / Sack of Granard, November 1920
Photograph of damaged buildings. The Sack of Granard, Co. Longford. 4 November 1920.
periodical / The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War
'The Times History and Encyclopaedia of the War', parts 102 and 103. Those parts deal with the Rising in Dublin of April 1916.