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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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Irish Volunteer jug / Success to the Independent Volunteer Societies of the Kingdom of Ireland
Jug, earthenware. Barrel-shaped, pale buff paste, with transfer engraving in black. On one side, within a shaped border 'Success to the Independent Volunteer Societies of the Kingdom of Ireland'. Supporters a Battalion and Light Infantry soldier above Hibernia, and below "For my Country". On the...
blunderbuss / Michael Dwyer
Blunderbuss owned by Michael Dwyer, 1771-1826. Blunderbuss rifle, iron barrel, wooden stock with iron butt plate. Iron lock. No maker's name. Irish, late 18th century. Length of 32". This is the blunderbuss given by Miss Hume of Humewood, Co. Wicklow, to the 1798 Memorial Committee in 1938 -...
political cartoon / The Death of Wolfe Tone
Illustration, ‘The Death of Wolfe Tone’. From a painting by Walter Mills, 1897. Free supplement with the Christmas number of the Irish Weekly Independent. Published by Cherry and Smalldridge Ltd., Colour Printers, Dublin.
badge / 1798 Commemoration, Wexford
1798 Commemorative pin, metal. Wexford Boro ’98 Association pin, circular, with a pike through the centre. Of the period of the 1898 centenary celebrations. Bronze. Obverse: circular disc of 2.5cm diameter with perforated hole 1.6cm in diameter slightly off centre and a pike head applied on the...
legal document / Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 1798
The Last Will and Testament of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, dated 27th May 1798. "I, Lord Edward Fitgerald of the City of Dublin, being of sound mind and memory, do make and publish this as and for my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills which have been made by me..."....
moquette / 1798 Wexford Pikeman
Plaster statue, reduced size copy of Oliver Sheppard's bronze 1798 Wexford Pikeman which stands in the Bull Ring in Wexford town. Pike present but not attached due to break in hand.
portrait / Theobald Wolfe Tone
Photstatic reproduction of a portrait print of Theobald Wolfe Tone. Framed.
membership certificate / Theobald Wolfe Tone / United Irishmen
Society of United Irishmen of Dublin membership certificate, made out to Theobald Wolfe Tone. Signed by James Napper Tandy.
novel / Belmount Castle, Wolfe Tone, 1790
Book or novel, titled 'Belmount Castle', or Suffering Sensibility, by Theobald Wolfe Tone, R. Jebb and J. Ratcliff. Printed in Dublin for P. Byrne, No. 108 Grafton Street, 1790. A novel in which Theobald Wolfe Tone collaborated, see 'When Wolfe Tone Wrote a Novel' by M.J. Mac Manus, in the Irish...
tool / Castlecomer, 1798 Rebellion
Pair of iron blacksmith's tongs, made and used by a Co. Wexford born blacksmith named Joseph Poole at Coon, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. Used to make pikes for the men of Wexford in 1798, and to make shoes for Fr John Murphy's horse, according to a family tradition. The Wexford men were on their way...
button / 1798 Rebellion
Small collection of objects found with a note detailing that they were de-selected from the 1798 Exhibition. Comprising one lead shot, one coin, seven buttons, mostly with details worn away; one of the North Cork Militia, and one of the ?stown Rangers 1795.
painting / Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Framed miniature painting of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. No details visible.
badge / 1798 Commemoration
1798 Commemorative coin or disc, metal. Obverse depicts a high cross, wolfhound, round tower and Maid-of-Erin harp with ‘In Remembrance of 98’, ‘98’ being on a flag. Reverse shows the arms of the four provinces between sprays of shamrock. Of the period of the 1898 centenary celebrations.
badge / 1798 Commemoration
1798 Commemorative pin, silvered metal. Long pin with ‘98’. Probably of the 1898 centenary celebrations.
book / The United Irishmen; Their Lives and Times
Two volumes of the book ‘The United Irishmen; Their Lives and Times’ by Richard R. Madden. Second edition. Published in London and Dublin, 1860. Museum bound in green. See object HH:1939.58.
coatee / 1782 Club, James Spring, c. 1846
Uniform coatee of the 1782 Club, worn by James Spring, circa 1846. Green cloth with fifteen gold coloured buttons, '1782' on each of them. Dark green velvet cuffs and collar, embroidered with shamrocks.
trousers / 1782 Club, James Spring, c. 1846
Uniform trousers of the 1782 Club, worn by James Spring, circa 1846. Green cloth with a gold stripe / braid.
cap / 1782 Club, James Spring, 1846
Uniform hat or cap of the 1782 Club, worn by James Spring, circa 1846.