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.
manuscript / Irish War News / The Provisional Government to the Citizens of Dublin
Manuscript written by Patrick Pearse. Text of Patrick Pearse’s statement for the Irish War News. Bulletin written by Pearse in the General Post Office early on Tuesday morning, 25th April 1916, and subsequently published by Joseph M. Stanley on page 4 of the Irish War News of the same day. Pearse...
postcard / Joseph Michael Stanley
Postcard studio photograph of Joseph Stanley.
studio photograph / Joseph Michael Stanley
Studio photograph of Joseph Stanley in uniform. Backed onto card.
manuscript / irish War News / The Provisional Government to the Citizens of Dublin
Manuscript written by Patrick Pearse. Headed ‘The Provisional Government to the Citizens of Dublin’. Bulletin issued by Pearse from the G.P.O. late on Tuesday 25th or early on Wednesday 26th April 1916. Text subsequently published by Joseph M. Stanley in the form of a broadside. Written in copying...
newsheet / Irish War News, 1916
Copy of Irish War News. Printed by Joseph M. Stanley and his printing staff at a commandeered printing works at Halston Street, Dublin, early on Tuesday morning, 25th April 1916. Issued and sold to the public within the British military cordon in the centre of the city. Ref. J.J. Bouch, ‘The War...
photograph / First Dáil, January 1916
Photograph. The members of the First Dáil. January 1919.
photograph / Michael Collins
Photograph. Mounted on card. Showing Michael Collins in uniform.
photograph / Eamon de Valera
Photograph, Eamon de Valera and Lord Mayor. On reverse, signed 'E. A. McGuinness, 11 April 1919'. Inscribed 'Lord Mayor and President de Valera at Mansion House 27 March 1919'.
photograph / Irish Free State, 1922
Group photograph, Free State soldiers posing at the ‘The Big “Fella”’ and ‘The Fighting 2nd’ armoured cars. Signed 'With Best Wishes from Colonel Commandant F. Thornton, 13 June 1922'. Inscribed on back 'To Maura from Frank'.
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Studio photograph of a suited man. By Lafayette. Associated with Joseph Stanley or family.
photograph / Thomas Whelan, 1921
Photograph. Mounted on card. Showing Thomas Whelan walking between a prison guard and an army guard. Mountjoy, 1921.
photograph / Abbey Theatre Company
Group photograph of female members of the Abbey Theatre Company.
photograph / Con Colbert
Postcard photograph. Showing Con Colbert dressed in costume, possibly that of the Fianna Éireann pipe band.
photograph / Seán Connolly
Souvenir postcard photograph. Seán Connolly, Abbey actor and Irish Citizen Army commandant, who was killed on the first day of the Rising at City Hall.
painted photograph / Michael Mallin
Studio photograph, re-touched by hand. Showing a man, probably Michael Mallin, in Irish Volunteer uniform, holding a sword and wearing puttees. Backed onto card.
studio photograph / Harry Boland
Studio photograph. Harry Boland, wearing a pinstripe jacket and tie.
studio photograph / Abbey Theatre Company
Studio photograph. Showing a woman in theatrical dress, with her hands bound behind her back. Probably Joseph Stanley’s wife, who was an Abbey actress. Photograph backed onto card.
studio photograph / Mary Boyle O'Reilly
Studio photograph of Mary Boyle O’Reilly. Handwritten inscription at bottom reads ‘To my father’s Friend / The Editor of the Drogheda Argus, / From Mary Boyle O’Reilly’
postcard photograph / James Connolly
Postcard photograph of James Connolly.