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.
letter / Seán Heuston, 1916
Letter to Mrs. Heuston, mother of Seán Heuston, 18 May 1916, referring to the enclosure of certificates of death of Seán Heuston on official embossed paper.
anniversary card / Thomas Kent
Card commemorating the First Anniversary of the execution of Thomas Kent. Reads - I gcuimhne ar Thomas R. Ceannt (In Memory of Thomas R. Kent), Commandant, Cork Brigade I.R.A., Who Died for Ireland 9th May 1916.
photograph / St. Enda's School, 1914
Photograph of pupils at St. Enda's 1914. Fred Docherty standing at rear. 1st and third in back row are Seumas Butler and Brian Joyce. Front row left to right Des Murphy, David Sears, Austin Geary, Peter Baker, Joe Gilligan and Brian MacNeill. 6.6 by 4.8 inches.
photograph / British troops, Stephen's Green, 1916
Full plate photograph of British troops marching along Stephen's Green after Rising.
photograph / British troops, Shelbourne Hotel, 1916
Full plate photograph of British troops drawing up outside Shelbourne Hotel in 1916.
commemorative medal / 1916 50th Aniversary, silver
1916 50th Anniversary medal in silver, 1966. The obverse depicts the GPO facade in flames, with a rising sun behind the portico, all in low relief. In raised letters above is 'AISÉIRI NA CÁSCA' and in raised numbers in exerque, '1916-1966'. The reverse bears, in raised letters, a facsimile of the...
commemorative medal / 1916 50th Anniversary, gold
1916 50th Anniversary medal in gold. 1.4 ins. D. OBV. The GPO facade in flames with a rising sun behind the portico, all in low relief. In raised letters above AISÉIRI NA CÁSCA and in raised numbers in exerque, 1916-1966. REV: In raised letters facsimile of signatures of 7 signatoires of...
prison autograph album / Kilmainham Gaol / Hare Park 1923 - 1924
Autograph album kept by Republican prisoners in Kilmainham and Hare Park 1923/4.
prison art / Derby Prison, 1916
Tablemat made by Stephen Pollard in Derby Prison, 1916. 24 by 13 ins. embroidered with the words DERBY PRISON / DUBLIN C.COY / IRA / EASTER XVI picked out on a background of mostly green, white and orange.
prison autograph album / Reading Jail, 1916
Autograph album kept by Darrell Figgis in Reading Jail in 1916, containing autographs of Dennis McCullough, Sean T. O'Kelly, Arthur Griffith et al.
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar, 1921
Autograph album from Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1921. Containing autographs, sketches etc. by Republican prisoners.
card / Jacobs Factory, 1916
Sections of tricolour which flew over Jacobs in 1916. Comprising three fragments of cloth about .5 x .25 inches in dimension, one green, one white and one yellow, pasted on to a piece of brown paper 3.6 x 5.8 inches, in the shape of a flag staff painted in white alongside the cloth fragments....
photograph / Ruins of the Hosiery Factory, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, 1920
Photograph. Ruins of the hosiery factory at Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. It was burned by Constabulary during the sack of the town. September 20th-21st 1920.
button / Irish Volunteer / WWI, T.F. Gill, 1915
Irish Volunteers Belt. Worn by T.F. Gill throughout World War I and bearing as souvenir badges etc. Derbyshire, Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, Gordon Highlanders, Grenadier Button, Middlesex Regiment, two Canadian buttons, Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, a crown, London Irish button,...
leaflet / First meeting, 1917
Leaflet for meeting of Socialist Party of Ireland on 8 July 1917. 'Open Air Propaganda, 1917', First Meeting at the Phoenix Park. Mounted on card.
roll of honour / Battle of Ashbourne, Survivors, 1957
Photograph of the Battle of Ashbourne Survivors taken on occasion of unveiling the memorial, The Cross of the Rath, 1957. The names are filled in on paper beneath: another sheet of paper to the right giving a list of participants in the Battle of Ashbourne. All mounted on cardboard. 9" x 7".
studio photograph / Michael O'Callaghan
Photograph of Michael O'Callaghan, Mayor Of Limerick from January 1920 to January 1921. Murdered by British Auxiliary forces, Black and Tans, 7 March 1921. Studio photograph, Head and shoulders, taken by Richardson of Limerick.
photograph / Barney Mellows, Bodenstown Cemetary
Photograph of Barney Mellows at Bodenstown Cemetary, Co. Kildare. Shown carrying a wreath in the centre of a group. Undated. Photograph measures 8.4 by 6.3 inches, mounted on card 11.8 by 9.8 inches.
photograph / Liam Mellows and Sarah Mellows
Photograph of Liam Mellows and his mother, Sarah Mellows, showing him as a young boy. Photograph measures 5.9 by 8.1 inches.