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.
photograph / Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
Portrait photograph of man in uniform. By Halliday & Co., 14 Queen's Arcade, Belfast. One of a collection of 23 photographs relating to the Royal Irish Rifles 1913 to 1916, World War I period. Related to the name Fitzmaurice of Carlow. Collection includes eight newsheets on the 'Amalgamation of the...
photograph / Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
Three postcard photographs of group of men in uniform. One of a collection of 23 photographs relating to the Royal Irish Rifles 1913 to 1916, World War I period. Related to the name Fitzmaurice of Carlow. Collection includes eight newsheets on the 'Amalgamation of the Parishes of Carlow and...
photograph / Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
Portrait photograph of three men in uniform. By Lafayette. One of a collection of 23 photographs relating to the Royal Irish Rifles 1913 to 1916, World War I period. Related to the name Fitzmaurice of Carlow. Collection includes eight newsheets on the 'Amalgamation of the Parishes of Carlow and...
photograph / Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
Portrait photograph of man in uniform. By Lafayette. One of a collection of 23 photographs relating to the Royal Irish Rifles 1913 to 1916, World War I period. Related to the name Fitzmaurice of Carlow. Collection includes eight newsheets on the 'Amalgamation of the Parishes of Carlow and Killeshin.
photograph / Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
Portrait photograph of Jack Martin of the 1st Royal Irish Rifles, killed 9 ? 1915. In uniform. By Lafayette. One of a collection of 23 photographs relating to the Royal Irish Rifles 1913 to 1916, World War I period. Related to the name Fitzmaurice of Carlow. Collection includes eight newsheets on...
photograph / Royal Irish Rifles, WWI
Portrait photograph of man in uniform. One of a collection of 23 photographs relating to the Royal Irish Rifles 1913 to 1916, World War I period. Related to the name Fitzmaurice of Carlow. Collection includes eight newsheets on the 'Amalgamation of the Parishes of Carlow and Killeshin.
photograph / Dublin Castle, Christmas 1916
Photograph, modern print, of recuperating soldiers dining in St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle, Christmas 1916. Nursing staff visible in background.commission / Patrick Markey, 1919
Framed certificate or commission for 2nd Lieutenant Patrick Celestine Aloysius Markey for service as an officer in the Land Forces. Dated 24 March 1919.
button / Markey Family, WWI
Ribbon with Royal Munster Fusiliers, Naval Division and King Edward Horse buttons attached (obviously denoting the three Markey brother’s service).
magazine / Illustrated War News, 3 May 1916
Illustrated War News 3rd May 1916. Pages 41-45 contain interesting photographs of the 1916 Rising.
album / Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, WWI
Photographic album of Lt Andrew J. Horne, 17th Stationary Hospital attached to the 29th Division. He served in Gallipoli in 1915-16 and later in Alexandria, India and Mesopotamia from 1917-18. The photographs cover Gallipoli and Mesopotamia.
souvenir / Helles Point, Gallipoli, 1915
A copper ashtray made by the Royal Engineers on Cape Helles from the dome of the lighthouse which was blown up by the British on 25th April 1915. It is inscribed “Piece of Dome of Lighthouse on the Helles Point Gallipoli, destroyed on Easter Sunday 1915, 29th Division landed 25th April 1915,...
tropical helmet / Lt Andrew J. Horne, Gallipoli, WWI
Tropical helmet, belonging to Lt Andrew J. Horne, 17th Stationary Hospital attached to the 29th Division. He served in Gallipoli in 1915-16 and later in Alexandria, India and Mesopotamia from 1917-18.
regimental badge / Lt Andrew J. Horne, Gallipoli, WWI
Collection of regimental badges etc, in tin box, belonging to Lt Andrew J. Horne, 17th Stationary Hospital attached to the 29th Division. He served in Gallipoli in 1915-16 and later in Alexandria, India and Mesopotamia from 1917-18.
album / Royal Munster Fusiliers, Rangoon, 1913
Photographic album of 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers in 1913 Rangoon”. The notes in the album were made by the Lt. J.J. O’Shea Royal Munster Fusiliers.
certificate / Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith, 1916
Certificate, awarded to Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith as an honorary life member of the British Red Cross Society, 16 January 1918. Part of a collection of items relating to Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith of Voluntary Aid Detachment / St. John Ambulance Brigade, who turned her house in Ailesbury...
badge / Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith, 1916
Badge of the British Red Cross Society, of Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith as an honorary life member of the British Red Cross Society. January 1918. Made by J.R. Gaunt of London. Part of a collection of items relating to Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith of Voluntary Aid Detachment / St. John...
badge / Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith, 1916
Badge of the British Red Cross Society, County of Dublin, of Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith. Inscribed '5847 Maude Crawfurth Smith' on the reverse. Made by J.R. Gaunt of London. World War I period. Part of a collection of items relating to Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith of Voluntary Aid...
armband / Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith, 1916
Armband of the British Red Cross Society, City & County of Dublin / St. John Ambulance Brigade, of Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith. With 'For the Wounded', in red text. World War I period. Part of a collection of items relating to Clarisse Maude Crawfurth Smith of Voluntary Aid Detachment / St....