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 / Sarah Mellows funeral, 1952
Photograph of the lying in state of Mrs Sarah Mellows, mother of Barney and Liam Mellows. Showing a colour party at the foot of the open coffin, 1952. Photograph mounted on card 8 by 9.9 inches.
photograph / Liam Mellows, Bodenstown, 1921
Photograph of Liam Mellows speaking at Bodenstown 1921. Countess Markievicz at his right and (?) Harry Boland on his left.
mobilisation order / Richard Mulcauley, 22 April 1916
Mobilisation order, written by Joseph Plunkett at Headquarters (Liberty Hall, Beresford Place, Dublin) on 22 April 1916. Addressed to Richard Mulcauley, instructing him to be ready to act on Plunkett's order on Easter Sunday. Manuscript message on a page from a notebook 4.6 x 6 ins. with a...
photograph / Ruins of Athlone Printing Works, 1920
Photograph of the ruins of Athlone Printing Works, 1920 destroyed by Constabulary 3 November 1920. It was one of the largest printing works in Ireland.
photograph / Mountjoy, 1920
Photograph of a group of prisoners, three rows of men in civilian clothing, under sentence of death. Probably Mountjoy, 1920.
photograph / Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, 1919
Photograph of Seán T. Ó Ceallaigh, Irish envoy at Paris entering the office of M. Clemenceau Prime Minister of France to present Dáil Éireann's request that Ireland's Case be given a hearing at the Peace Conference, Paris, 1919.
knife (cutlery) / Michael Collins, commemorative
Michael Collins Memorial Knife. Standard Sheffield Tableknife, with half the handle (corroded). Stamped FIRTH STAINLESS and H.G. LONG & CO./CROSS DAGGER (with a shield enclosing crossed daggers between the words). Also stamped with half length portrait of Michael Collins with his name stamped...
photograph / Robert Monteith
Photograph of Robert Monteith, showing him, head and chest, in Irish Volunteer uniform.
photograph / British armoured car, Mountjoy, 1920
Photograph of a British armoured car bearing upon it an inscription 'Up Sinn Féin'. No date. This photograph is from a larger version, which shows the car is outside Mountjoy Prison, with a crowd outside the entrance further down the street. Probably dates to the Mountjoy Hunger Strikes of April...
photograph / Robert Monteith
Photograph of Robert Monteith showing him, head and chest, in Irish Volunteer uniform.
prison art / Ballykinlar, 1921
Bone brooch from Ballykinlar. 1.4 x .8 ins. scroll shaped bearing the word ROSE engraved in double line on front. 1.2 ins. pin affixed to back on which is engraved Baile Coinnleora/1921. Made by the father of Pádraig Ó Fathaigh, Edward Leonard, for Pádraig's mother Rose (née Maguire).
photograph / 'Mutineer', Four Courts, 1922
Photograph of the I.R.A.'s armoured car 'Mutineer' at the Four Courts. A Rolls Royce armoured car with a group of men in civilian clothes. Probably taken before the battle at the Four Courts, 1922.
commission / Sean Madden, 1924
Free State Army Commission, October 1924, appointing John Madden / Sean Madden to the rank of Lieutenant and signed by Liam T. MacCosgair.commission / Sean Madden, 1938
Irish Army Commission 1938, appointing Seán Ó Madain / Sean Madden / John Madden to the rank of Captain and signed by Dubhglas de hIde, Éamon de Valera and Proinnsios MacAodhagáin.
prison autograph album / Frongoch, 1916
Autograph album, 1916, kept by Seán Ó Maidin in Frongoch Internment Camp, Frongoch, Wales.
photograph / Presentation of service medals, 1941
Photograph of the presentation of service medals in 1941. Full plate, mounted, glazed and framed showing Eamon de Valera presenting the medal box to Seán Ó Maidin.
medal / John Madden / Seán Ó Maidin
1916 Service Medal, which was presented with three ribbon bars in a presentation box. As awarded to John Madden / Seán Ó Maidin.
box / Royal Arch Purple Chapter of Ireland / Orange Order, 1914
Badge of Royal Arch Purple Chapter of Ireland. Orange Order. In form of a shield .8 x .7 ins. Blue enamel with arch enclosing 2.5 under an eye with a ladder at right and a star (5 pointed) on left. Set in a black woolen golliwog 3.5 x 1.2 ins. and enclosed in a tin box 3.5" x 2" on cover of which...
photograph / Mitchel's G.A.C., Belfast, 1910
Mitchel's G.A.C. team, Summer League Champions, Belfast, 1910. Photograph 13.5 x 10.5 ins. mounted on cardboard with names of those included on attached sheet, dated 1920. Photograph by Pidduck Brothers, 5 High Street, Belfast.