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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.
commemorative medal / Lusitania, 1915
Medal, German, commemoration of the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915. On obverse, a depiction of the sinking Lusitania, 'Keine Bann Ware' above, below - Der groundampter Lusitania durch ein Deutsches tauchbooy versenkt 5 Mai 1915. Reverse depicts a Cunard Line ticket booth manned by a skeletal...
Bible / Lusitania, 1915
Book, copy of King James' Bible, issued by the Cunard Steam Ship Company for use on the S.S. Lusitania. Red cover stamped in gold with the ship name. Published in London by Eyre and Spottiswoode Bible Warehouse Ltd., at 33 Paternoster Row. Also located in Edinburgh and New York.
postcard photograph / German Officer's wife, 1915
Postcard photograph of the wife of a German Officer, c. 1915. Full length photograph. Published by Am, Schlotfeld, Stade.
postcard photograph / German Officer, 1915
Postcard photograph of German Officer in full uniform, including rifle with bayonet, pickelhaub and backpack (1914-1918). Full length photograph.
postcard / Ernest Kavanagh, 1914
Anti recruiting postcard cartoon by Ernest Kavanagh 1914, depicting Asquith condemning Redmond as a failure - 'Asquith. Like all Scabs Redmond, you are a failure from a business standpoint'. Redmond being kicked out of Ireland into England by the boot of 'young Ireland'.
life ring / Lusitania, 1915
Life-buoy, from the steamship "Lusitania" of the Cunard Line, torpedoed off Queenstown by a German Submarine on the 7th May, 1915. The buoy was picked up 72 miles NNW off the Fastnet Light, a fortnight after the disaster, by the Dublin Steam Trawler "Dean Swift". Given by R.J. Richardson Esq. Sec,...
life vest / Lusitania, 1915
Life jacket, from the steamship "Lusitania" of the Cunard Line, torpedoed off Queenstown by a German Submarine on the 7th May, 1915.
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
medal / Sinking of the Lusitania, 1915
Medal, cast iron, Sinking of the Lusitania. A sinking ship, around above 'Keine Bann Ware'. In exergue 'Der Grossdampfer, Lusitania - durch ein Deutches Tauchboot versenkt 5 May 1915'. Reverse: a crowd of people approaching Death (a skeleton), who sells tickets at the Cunard Line ticket booth,...
sign / Ballincollig Powder Mills, c. 1900
Cardboard sign of the Ballincollig Gunpowder Mills Company, c. 1900. Reads "The Ballincollig Royal Gunpwder Mills Coy., Limited, Contractors to H.M. War Department, est. 1794". Elliptical. Printed Guy & Co. Cork.
certificate / T.M. Gick, Cambridge University School of Instruction, 1915
Certificate, Cambridge University School of Instruction, made out to (Temporary) 2nd Lieutenant T.M. Gick, saying he has successfully completed the training course and listing the subjects studied, as prescribed in the War Office letter 43 / Miscellaneous / 1165 (M.T. 3) of 10 January 1915. Thomas...
Iron Cross / Captain Keogh, 1914
German Iron Cross, with ribbon. Said to have belonged to Captain Keogh of the Casement Brigade. One side: FW under crown, oak leaves and below, 1813. Other side: W under crown and, below, 1914. Black ribbon with two white stripes.
letter / Burrows Sisters, Nursing Service, WWI
Letter in envelope, from London, 10 May 1945, sent to Miss Lucas Clements at Rathkenny, Coatehill, Co. Cavan. Addressed to Darling Mummy, from 'E'. Discussing V.E. Day, and locations of family members. Part of a collection relating to the Burrowes Sisters of Co. Cavan, Anna and Rosamund, nurses...
guide book / Michelin Guide to the Yser and the Belgian Coast
Michelin Illustrated Guides to the Battlefields 1914-1918. Michelin Guide to the Yser and the Belgian Coast. An Illustrated History and Guide. In Memory of the Michelin Workmen and Employees Who Died Gloriously For Their Country. Belonging to Captain Richard Burke of the Royal Irish Regiment, WWI.
album / Constantinople & Malta, 1923
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 a later period in Constantinople, Malta Dardenelles, Suvla Bay etc, and the Asian...
souvenir / Joseph Plunkett, 1916
Joseph Mary Plunkett's rosary beads, given by him to Sergeant W. Hand of the Sherwood Foresters, a member of the firing squad which executed him. Hand in turn gave it to his cousin, Dora, before going to France where he was killed in 1918.
cartoon / Like all scabs, Redmond
Postcard cartoon; John Redmond being kicked out of Ireland. Asquith - Like all scabs, Redmond, you are a failure from a business standpoint. Possibly 1914 - 1915. Handwritten note on back of duplicate states this is by Ernest Kavanagh.
cartoon / Like all scabs, Redmond
Postcard cartoon; John Redmond being kicked out of Ireland. Asquith - Like all scabs, Redmond, you are a failure from a business standpoint. Possibly 1914 - 1915. Handwritten note on back states this is by Ernest Kavanagh.
photograph / Princess Mary Chrsitmas box, 1914
World War I Princess Mary box, containing one packet of cigarettes (open) and one packet of pipe tobacco. Also compliment card and photograph. The donor is the nephew of the recipient of the box, who died at the first battle of Ypres on 6th November 1914 - John Grumley of the 2nd Battalion...