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 / Casement, Banna Strand, Kerry, 1916
Photograph of the boat used by Roger Casement to come ashore at Banna Strand, Co. Kerry, from the Aud, 1916. Snapshot taken by English officer named Hampson at the time. Photograph measures 4.2 x 3.2 ins.
programme / 1916 Anniversary Mass, Paris, 1919
Souvenir card of a Mass in commemoration of 1916 sung at the Cathedral of Notre Dame des Victoires in Paris, 23rd April 1919
commemorative jug / Arthur Griffith
Arthur Griffith, commemorative jug. Staffordshire 6" high 4.1 ins. bottom diameter transfer printed pottery showing a print of a photograph by Hogan of Arthur Griffiths.
prison art / Rory O'Connor, 1922
Rory O'Connor, indian ink sketch of, by Cathal MacDubhghaill, dated 18 April 1922 on water-marked paper 8" x 6 1/5".
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 2921
Ballykinlar autograph album, 1921. Kept there by Morgan J. O'Brien including signatures, notes, pictures, quotations from Liam Ó Rinn, T.S. Cuffe, Sean Milroy, Risteárd Ó hAodha, Theo Fitzgerald, Sean Lemass, Joseph McGrath et al., and samples of the 1d., 3d., 6d. and 1/- Ballykinlar tokens.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp. Pencil sketch, dated 17 October 1916, of bearded prisoner (head and shoulders) by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Mounted on cardboard, 9" by 6".
prison autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
Autograph album from Belfast Jail, November 1918, compiled by Patrick Fitzpatrick of Keady, Co. Armagh. A copybook with autographs. 2/3 of one cover remaining.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp. Pencil sketch, dated 17 October 1916, of prisoner (head and shoulders) by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Mounted on cardboard 9" by 6.8".
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp. Pencil sketch, head only, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 7.5" by 5.5".
printing type / Proclamation, 1916
Three pieces of printing type, comprising capital F and two lower case letters e. Type from the font used in the printing of the 1916 Proclamation. Found among the papers of William O'Brien.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketches by Cathal MacDubhghaill, on paper 5.4" by 7.4". On one side a man stooped with hat reading. On the other side three head and shoulder sketches - one of man with army cap, spectacles and moustache, the other two are the left and right profiles of a...
letter / Countess Markievicz, 1907
Letter of Countess Markievicz, 2 December 1907, as newspaper article, concerning Female Suffrage.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoners in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17 Pencil sketches by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 5.4" by 7.4". Three sketches on one side, one of a man with a cap, another is the head of a bearded man and the third is a longer sketch of the latter with a hat on his head. On the other side is a sketch of the...
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Sketch of Searlas O Donnaille seated in woman's clothes during an entertainment in the camp, on paper 5.4" by 7.4". Dated 01 November 1916. By Cathal MacDubhghaill.
prison autograph album / Paddy Cogger, Newbridge, 1923
Autograph album 1923 kept by Republican prisoner Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade, in Newbridge Detention Camp.
prison art / Republican, 1923
Blue and pink macramé bag, 1923. Made by Republican prisoner Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade, in Newbridge Detention Camp.
prison art / Republican, 1923
Pink macramé bag, 1923. Made by Republican prisoner Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade, in Newbridge Detention Camp.
prison art / Republican, 1923
Green macramé bag 1923 made by Republican prisoner Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade, in Newbridge Detention Camp.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch of man with a cap seated to left with background lightly sketched in on paper 5.4" by 7.4". By Cathal MacDubhghaill.