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.
badge / Michael John Carney, RIC / Royal Irish Regiment
Pair of badges or flashes of a Royal Irish Constabulary Sergeant. Blue stripes on black background. Belonging to Michael Carney. Part of a collection of artefacts relating to Michael John Carney, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, later of the Royal Irish Regiment during World War I.button / Michael John Carney, RIC / Royal Irish Regiment
Seven buttons of a Royal Irish Constabulary uniform. Metal, silvered. Six small sized, one larger. Manufactured by W. Dowler and Son, Birmingham, England. Belonging to Michael Carney. Part of a collection of artefacts relating to Michael John Carney, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary,...
manual / Michael John Carney, RIC / Royal Irish Regiment
Book or manual, The Policeman’s Manual of Sir Andrew Reed, by Hume R. Jones. Printed and published in Dublin by Alex Thom & Co, 87, 88, 89 Abbey Street, 1907. With handwritten notes inside, includes the names Edward Polland and John Dockery of Tulsk, Co. Roscommon. Also signed and dated by Michael...
manual / Michael John Carney, RIC / Royal Irish Regiment
Book or manual, titled 'Irish Constable’s Guide'. by Sir Andrew Reed, K.C.B., C.V.O., Barrister at Law, Sometime Inspector-General Royal Irish Constabulary. Seventh edition by Hume R. Jones, L.L.B., Barrister at Law, Resident Magistrate. Printed and published by Alex Thom and Company Limited, Crow...
notebook / Lieutenent George Creagh Jenings, 1914
World War I diary of Lieutenent George Creagh Jenings of the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He was killed in action in Belgium on Friday 6 November, aged 27. Buried at Ploegsteert. The diray was written from 7 September to Wednesday 4 November 1914, two days before he was killed.
statue / Thomas Lawless, WWI
Bust, depicting the head of Thomas Lawless.
photograph / Weldon
Photograph, two British Army officers in uniform, World War I period, with two young boys on horseback, on a town or village street. Connected to L.F.B. Weldon.
photograph / Weldon
Photograph, British Army Regiment, led by band, World War I period, parading on a town or village street. Connected to L.F.B. Weldon.photograph / Michael Crean, Royal Munster Fusiliers, WWI
Three World War I medals; 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal in frame (framed with buttons, medal bar and card), along with a file of information, copies of two photographs and a folder of newspaper cuttings relating to L/Corporal Michael Crean, army number 9958, Royal Munster...
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal / W. Foley, Royal Munster Fusiliers, WWI
Set of World War I medals; Military Medal, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal, Long Service and Good Conduct Medal. Of Sergeant W. Foley, army number 6570, Royal Munster Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion. (The British War Medal was issued to a F.R. Ellis, army number 3406, of a Liverpool...
painting /
Painting, colour, of a young soldier. The uniform, webbing and helmet is consistent with a British Army soldier's c. 1916 (i.e. World War I) The soldiers holds a bayoneted rifle in front of him, the rifle similar to a standard issue Lee Enfield. The background is a rural scene, possibly...
photograph / Private Webber, 1916
Portrait photograph, half length, of man in British World War I uniform, signed 'yours sincerely Pte Webber 2xt (?) 7/2/16'.
photograph / Holywood, 1916
Photograph of group of men in military uniform. Marked "Holywood 1916". British Army, World War I period.
photograph / Holywood, 1916
Photograph of group of men in military uniform. Possibly Holywood, 1916. British Army, World War I period. A statue of an Egyptian sphinx figure on the ground in front.
cartoon / Dastards, Traitors and Felon-Setters, 1915
Postcard cartoon; Wolfe Tone accusing two traitors, one of whom is John Redmond. A sign behind reads 'British Patronage and Gold for Irish Traitors to Dublin Castle'. Text underneath - Shade of Wolfe Tone: 'Dastards, Traitors and Felon-Setters'. Initialled EK, Ernest Kavanagh, 1915.
photograph / Irish troops, World War I
One of a set of four photographs of British Army troops, probably Irish, leaving for World War I on transport ships, circa 1916. Three photographs of troops arriving at docks and boarding the transport ship, the fourth shows a woman handing an object to a soldier on the ship.
leaflet / Unseen Hand Meeting - Lord Kitchener's Sister Occupies the Chair
Pamphlet, 'Huge "Unseen Hand" Meeting - Lord Kitchener's Sister Occupies the Chair'. Reprinted from the Financial News, London.
photograph / British Army, WW I
Photograph of a group of British Army Officers, seated in front of tents. World War I period.
photograph / British Army, Belfast, 1914
Photograph of a group of British Army Officers, seated in front of a tent. Labeled 'Belfast June 1914'. Pre-World War I period.