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.
cheque / Clarke / Larkin, 1912
Cheque signed by Thomas J. Clarke to James Larkin for 18/- on 8 May, 1912. Cheque no. 090431, drawn on The Northern Banking Co. Ltd. Ball's Branch Upper Sackville St. Dublin. Endorsed on back by Larkin and by a Martin Keating.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922 showing 13 coffins of executed Republicans lying in state in the Hardwicke Hall. One man, wearing a hat, at attention with his back to an improvised altar. Full plate.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922 showing about a dozen horse drawn hearses in procession along O'Connell Street. Full plate.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing five of the hearses arriving at cemetry with large group of sympathisers all round.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing one of the coffins being borne by six comrades ahead of a group of mourners.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing one of the tricolour bedecked coffins being borne on comrades shoulders between rows of a guard of honour.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing one of the coffins arriving near opened grave with mourners and officiating clergy foregathered.
postcard photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Postcard print, by Jerome Ltd., of graveside group as in EW.4703 - showing one of the coffins arriving near opened grave with mourners and officiating clergy foregathered.
document / American Federation of Labour
A copy of resolutions unanimously adopted by the delegates to the American Federation of Labour , the first great public body in the world to give recognition to the Irish Republic, at Atlantic City, N.J., June 9th to 29th, 1919. Typed document, signed by Samuel Compers (President) and Frank...
ticket / Brian Nolan, Belfast, 1920
Book, 'An Cúigeadh Leabhar', containing Irish fete ticket Cranfield, Co. Antrim, 29 June 1920 with manuscript endorsement by Brian Nolan to brother Paddy re 'hurls' for the day. Attached to copy of pamphlet by F.J. Bigger, Cranfield Church and Holy Well and all in end papers of An Cúigeadh "Brian...
photograph / Clan na Gael or Fianna Girl Scouts, c. 1950
Photo of Mrs. May Murray. Postcard size shown with husband and three Clan na Gael or Fianna Girl Scouts c. 1950.
souvenir / Cathal Brugha
Cathal Brugha souvenir. Small pottery bowl bearing the stamp of the Hammam Hotel, Dublin. Maker's name Dunn Bennett and Co. Ltd. Burslem, on base.
booklet / Great Irish Relief Fund Bazaar, 1916
1916 Programme of the Great Irish Relief Fund Bazaar. Held at Madison Square Garden, New York, October 14-22, 1916. Contains an article by Nora Connolly.
book / The Women of the Irish Revolution
Pamphlet "The Women of the Irish Revolution" by W. Dermot Darby. Reprinted from an Address to the Irish Women's Council at the Hotel McAlpin, June 23 1916.
prison medal / Seán Ó Déagha, Ballykinlar, 1921
Medal awarded in Ballykinlar, 1921, to Seán Ó Déagha for his proficiency in the teaching of Irish there. Silver, 1.1" D., raised at top to form loop for suspending ring. OBV. An escutcheon blank in centre as if superimposed on openwork trefoil sprays surmounted by a harp and within a band decorated...
stool / Eamonn Ceannt, Rome, 1908
Stool used by Eamonn Ceannt when playing uileann pipes, and said to have been used by him whilst visiting Rome to play the pipes for the Pope in 1908. Hair seat covered in red with bead work centrepiece. Wood frame in gilt finish.
sketch / Thomas Kent, Cork Military Detention Barracks, 1916
Sketch of Thomas Kent's Cell. Sketch made by Matthew Barry in 1922. It shows the remains of the prison cell in which Thomas Kent was up to the moment of his execution. The sketch was made after the attempted blowing up of Cork Military Detention barracks in August 1922.
photograph / The Men of the West, 1916-1921 Mayo Flying Squad
"The Men of the West". Enlarged, mounted, autographed, print of the J.J. Leonard's photograph of the Mayo 1916-1921 Flying Squad. Beneath a list of the names of those included.
prison art / Kilmainham, 1923
Countess Markievicz drawings in album kept by Mary Burke Dowling (and including some of her own sketches). Fronticpiece of the Windsor and Newtown Drawing Book is a title piece "Scenes in Prison". A wash drawing of a cell follows; then signed watercolour of her cell in Kilmainham in 1923 by Mary...