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.
figure / Douglas Hyde, 1907
Plaster bust of Dr. Douglas Hyde, by J. Carré, 1907. This bust was in the office of the Gaelic League at Connradh Offices, 25 Parnell Square when the building was raided by the Black and Tans, 1920 or 1921. One of the raiders broke the nose with the butt of his gun. It is not known when the bust...
/ Gaelic League / Anglo-Irish Truce
Typewriter, Underwood; the first typewriter with Irish characters used by the Gaelic League. Purchased about 1905 by the Gaelic League, and probably the first Gaelic Typewriter to be made. On this machine Seamus MacConglinne, the then Secretary of the Gaelic League, typed the Irish versions of the...
watercolour / Four Courts in Flames, 1922
Four Courts in Flames, 1922. Watercolour by D.L. Hemingway - then a student at Trinity College Dublin. On paper. 7" by 5"
jewellery / Chadwick / Clan na Gael
Brooch, of Celtic design (Tara style), 8.5cm. diameter. Of Mae Kelly Chadwick's Clan na Gael uniform.
photograph / Liam Mellows
Full plate print of Liam Mellows in Fianna Eireann tunic. Stamp of F. Czira on back.
photograph / Thomas MacDonagh
Full plate photographic print of Thomas macDonagh, dressed in traditional vest and jacket with Tara style brooch fastening the brat. Autographed by Donagh MacDonagh, stamped by F. Czira, photographer, on back.
photograph / Cumann na mBan, 1916 survivors
Cumann na mBan, 1916 survivors together in Croke Park, photographed c. 1935. Full plate photograph of, including Phyllis Ryan (Bean Ui Cheallaigh).
rifle / Ballivor, Co. Meath
Lee Enfield carbine rifle , R.I.C., c.1910. Royal Irish Constabulary carbine captured at Ballivor, Co. Meath. Lee Enfield Serial No. 4445. Stamped on brass plate on butt "2. 05/R.I.C./9022". Traces of inscription in wood. "Ballivor" cut into wood at other side of butt. RIC police number 7878....
photograph / Irish Volunteers, September 1915
Armed Irish Volunteer Squad 1915. Mounted photograph showing 12 uniformed men armed with lee Enfield rifles. Headed "Special Section A Co. 4th Batt. Dublin Brigade Winners of trophy at St. Enda's, Rathfarnham 5th Sept. 1915". Names beneath - Back - Sean Treacy, Paudge Ó Broin, Gabriel Murray, Brian...
map / Dublin, War of Independence
Map of Dublin connected with War of Independence. Ordnance Survey 25 inch 1911 map (1920 printing) Sheet XVIII II. In this which vendor's husband, Goulden, alleged to have had a War of Independence connection in and about Clonturk House and Richmond Road (scene of the Battle of Fernside involving...
photograph / Na Fianna Éireann Ardfheis, 1918
Na Fianna Éireann Ardfheis, 1918. Photograph of delegates. 12 by 10 inches.
prison art / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921
Prison watercolour, 1921 probably a Ballykinlar item depicting hut, barbed wire fence and soldier in sentry post looking down over all. Unsigned, untitled. Previously the property of Bob Foley.
/ Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921
Prison watercolour, 1921 probably from Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921, by the same artist who painted EW.4560. Depicting gates, fence, roofs of two huts, and a soldier in a sentry box.
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Ballykinlar Camp autograph album, 1921. Kept by Bob Foley there, and including entries by Joe McGrath and D. Corr (perhaps the artist of EW 4560, 4561).
prison token / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-21
One pence token used as currency in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Camp No. 2, between 1920-1921. A paper disc, printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy and Boland, of Dublin.
photograph / Fianna Eireann, Belfast
Small photograph of youth in Fianna uniform shown in studio pose. Likely to be Bulmer Hobson's Fianna Eireann from 1902 ff, in Belfast.
buttonhole badge / National Volunteer, c.1915
National Volunteer badge c.1915, for buttonhole. Bronze faced in green enamel. Circular face on which is a harp dividing N.V. On stand 'Made in Ireland, Quinn, Belfast'.
miniature medal / Bob Foley
Miniature War of Independence medal with bar and ribbon which belonged to Bob Foley.
Fianna Jubilee medal / Fianna Éireann Golden Jubilee, 1959
Miniature Fianna Jubilee, medal with ribbon, 1959. The obverse depicts the Fianna Éireann device of a rayed sun divided horizontally within a circle. Around above, Fianna Éireann. The reverse reads, across, 1909-1959. Around above, 'Golden Jubilee'.