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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.
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/ William O'Brien, 1888
Tea plate, large, with portrait of William O'Brien, part of a 32 piece tea set by Skelton and Plant, England, c. 1888. Circular plate; protruding handles of undulating line on either side; circular recess in centre, upright foot. Recess printed with the figure of Hibernia surrounded by tied...plate / Charles Stewart Parnell
Tea set, English, circa 1888. Composed of thirty-two pieces (DC:1971.21-52), china ware printed with portraits of Charles Stewart Parnell, Dr Croke, Michael Davitt, William O'Brien, John Dillon and W.E. Gladstone, each piece printed with one portrait and having the reverse printed with a harp and...
/ Daniel O'Connell Monument, 1882
Water jug, Dublin 1882-1885. Glass water jug of bright metal, straight inverted sides waisted, outspread, solid foot. Neck and lip broken off and replaced with unmarked silver band. Plain rounded C-shaped handle attached from below and joined to top. Engraved on front with the Daniel O'Connell...
cordial bottle / Irish Reform Cordial
Cordial bottle, Derbyshire, about 1835. Stoneware bottle made in two-part mould depicting Daniel O'Connell. The upper part of his coat and his hair are dark brown; much of the rest is in a mottled lighter brown. He is represented with curly hair, shirt with stock, pendant on ribbon, heavy coat with...cordial bottle lid / Irish Reform Cordial
Cordial bottle, Derbyshire, about 1835. Stoneware bottle made in two-part mould depicting Daniel O'Connell. The upper part of his coat and his hair are dark brown; much of the rest is in a mottled lighter brown. He is represented with curly hair, shirt with stock, pendant on ribbon, heavy coat with...
telegraph cable / Submarine Telegraph Cable, 1864
Telegraph cable; leather case containing two examples of Hooper's Patent Submarine Telegraph Cable. Each piece stripped and covered in glass tube. 1864.
blunderbuss /
Wheellock blunderbuss, short brass barrel, full stock. Stock and butt of walnut wood. Ivory inlays all along stock and butt. Iron lock mechanism and lockplate. Barrel decorated around mouth and lock. Italian, 17th century.
greave /
Suit of Armour, comprising - Helmet, face piece with neck piece attached; Gorget; body piece with tassels; two arm pieces with gauntlets; two large shoulder pieces; two greaves of steel; two steel foot pieces each formed of eight parts joined by chain mail, and short trousers to knee, of figured...
scabbard / Irish Revenue Police, c.1850
Sword, scabbard; belt and frog. Sword, with a gilt hilt with design of shamrock and crown with REVENUE POLICE around. Blade engraved with shamrock and crown and REVENUE POLICE and BRADY DUBLIN WARRANTED. Scabbard, leather with gilt mounts. Belt, black leather, red silk lining. Buckle gilt with...
swivel cannon /
Cannon. Iron. Long tapering barrel, moulding round muzzle, two short trunnions, Y-shaped supports for trunnions; open breech closed by a hinged breech block with hook attachment at side. Straight handle to the rear terminating in a knob. Probably English, 17th century.
percussion rifle /
Percussion Gun and Rifle, by Pattison, Dublin, 1835. The signed, etched, octagonal barrels mounted under and over with stag, doe and dog represented on the engraved silver mounts. On the silver patch-box cover crossed bones and a skull on a grave slab over the legend Bás gan Sagart. Dublin...
mail coach blunderbuss / Dublin Mail, c. 1790
Dublin Mail blunderbuss. c. 1790 by Bryan (Cork). Brass barrelled flintlock type. BRYAN on lockplate. Engraved on the barrel is 'Cork No. 2 Dublin Mail'. Stamped on barrel is 'E C-1242' - the police registration mark of 1843. One of a pair.
sporting rifle /
Sporting Rifle by William Rigby and John Rigby, Dublin, c.1840. Octagonal barrel with hinged leaf rear sight; Quarterstocked complete with ramrod (not original), lockplate, tangs, trigger guard and patchbox highly decorated with coat-of-arms (as above). Butt partially checked. Top of barrel...
oar / Lusitania, 1915
Oar, cut short, branded 'Lusitania'. From the steamship 'Lusitania' of the Cunard Line, torpedoed off Queenstown by a German Submarine on the 7th May, 1915. Picked up by the donor off the Kilkee coast, Co. Clare on or about the 20th August, 1915. Length 202cm x width 12.7cm
jug / Free Trade to Ireland, c. 1780
Jug, pottery, decorated with transfer designs in black on one side, with figures of men seated and a woman in the centre holding a rake. The other side of the jug depicts a beggar woman with children accosting a lady and gentleman. Underneath the spout is FREE TRADE TO IRELAND within a floral...
box / Great Seal of Saorstát Eireann
Steel matrix. Part of the Great Seal of Saorstát Eireann. Ornamental Irish harp in the centre with imprint "Saorstát Eireann", on a shaped four point shield surrounded by a circular band of La Téne ornament, with fine bosses. Around this is another band of Celtic interlacing within a corded edge.
counterpart / Great Seal of Saorstát Eireann
Great seal of Saorstát Eireann. Copper counterpart to steel matrix. Part of the Great Seal of Saorstát Eireann. Ornamental Irish harp in centre with imprint "Saorstát Eireann", on a shaped four point shield surrounded by a circular band of La Téne ornament, with fine bosses. Around this another...
model train / No. 22, Dublin to Wexford, 1865
Model Steam Train Engine; number 22. The Dublin to Wexford railway line. This route was constructed by the Sharp Stewart Company of Manchester, 1865. Re-built in 1891.
casket / Charles Stewart Parnell
Presentation casket presented to Charles Stewart Parnell. Box and roof-like lid with figures of a wolf hound, round tower, harp and high cross, the emblems of Ireland on each corner. Silver.