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.
newspaper / The Worker's Republic, 3 July 1915
Newspaper, 'The Worker's Republic', 3 July 1915.
prison label / Thomas Ashe, Lewes Prison, 1917
Lewes Prison Label, addressed to "Mr. T. Ashe, Lispole Co. Kerry" for a registered parcel sent on 21 June 1917. Thomas Ashe.
photograph / Howth Gun Running
Howth Gun-Running photographic print taken from a magazine showing the Asgard at Howth pier.
photograph / Howth Gun Running
Howth Gun-Running photographic print taken from a magazine showing the Asgard with sails furled at a pier.
photograph / Howth Gun Running
Howth Gun-Running Print taken from a magazine showing the Asgard with sails furled at a pier in a harbour. EW.4287 is a detail of this.
photograph / Seán Connolly and Countess Markievicz
Seán Connolly and Countess Markievicz. Print from the Hely publication, The Sinn Féin Revolt Illustrated showing both in a scene from a play 'The Memory of the Dead" by Countess Markievicz.
photograph / Gaelic League Ardfheis, c.1898
Gaelic League Ardfheis c.1898. Photograph of a group including Pádraig Mac Piarais (Patrick Pearse), Eoin MacNeill and Dubhghlas de hÍde (Douglas Hyde).
photograph / Gaelic League, Portarlington, c. 1900
Some members of the Portarlington Gaelic League. Photograph of a group c. 1900 with names printed underneath.
greatcoat / Michael Collins
Michael Collins' greatcoat. Worn at the time of his death as result of ambush near Bandon, County Cork, 22nd August, 1922. There are the remains of dried mud on the bottom flap of the coat. Some evidence of blood under the collar on the right hand side. The coat and cap came from President...
prison autograph album / S.S. Argenta, 1922
Autograph album from the prison ship SS Argenta, 1922, containing signatures and inscriptions, of various republican prisoners, dating from October to December, and a poem entitled "The Last Post for Erskine Childers".
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Autograph album from Ballykinlar Camp 1920/21. Kept by donor Harold Beehan there and including autographs, poems, inscriptions, sketches and watercolours by fellow internees. Also included are various souvenirs, cuttings and photographs: A BALLYKINLAR 3D TOKEN; a photograph from a newspaper of J....
prison art / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Father Mathew Total Abstinence Medal from Ballykinlar in white metal. Pierced at top and suspended by a hook from a bronze bar (which is slotted for a ribbon). Belonged to Harold Beehan.
prison art / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Wooden picture frame from Ballykinlar 21 x 15 cm. carved in the Celtic style by donor, Harold Beehan while a prisoner there, and signed by him on the back.
photograph / Harold Beehan, c. 1900
Daguerrotype photograph of Harold Beehan. Beehan was later interned in Ballykinlar, 1920-21. In small wooden crafted case (EW.4303). Circa 1900.
newspaper article / Sheehy Skeffington / Bowen Colthurst, 1916
1916 newspaper cutting. Mrs. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Captain Bowen Colthurst, Daily Sketch (photographs), 8 June 1916.
leaflet / The State of Ireland
"The State of Ireland" 1919 by Dublin Castle. A 4 pp. 'reply' by the Chief Secretary to the charges of the Irish American delegation. Published by the Belfast Newsletter on 19.6.1919.
propaganda / A Frenchman's View of the Irish Question, 1918
Unionist Propaganda c. 1918. Single printed sheet entitled 'A Frenchman's View of the Irish Question' - sections on and from Exonflaire's L'Irlande Enemie? Published by Northern Whig newspaper.
handbill / Irish Women Prisoners
Resolution. Release the Prisoners, 1918. Quarto sheet giving text of resolution of the Irish Women's Franchise League protesting the jailing of Countess Markievicz, Mrs. Kathleen Clarke, and Madame MacBride (Maud Gonne).
dictionary / concealed pistol
Automatic pistol, concealed in a book, possibly one which had been the property of Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde (of the Irish Parliamentry Party) and left in the Gresham Hotel whence it came into the possession of donor's father, who worked in the hotel at the time. The book an 1828 edition of Noel...