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.
newspaper / The Weekly Irish News, 2 Oct 1915
Newspaper, copy from The Weekly Irish News, 2 October 1915, with portrait photographs and details of officers killed in the Gallipoli campaign.
photograph / Dardanelles, Sulva Bay, c.1915
Postcard photograph number 561, of the Dardanelles, Sulva Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey. Circa 1915.
photograph / Dardanelles, Cape Helles, c. 1915
Postcard photograph number 562 - Dardanelles, Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey. Circa 1915
pipe bowl / German, Frongoch, 1916
Pipe bowl of turned wood, diam. 1.4", height 2.8". Used by a German prisoner in Frongoch Prison Camp prior to occupation by Irish prisoners. Found by Patrick Ronan in 1916 and taken away by him.
photograph / John Dillon, Ballaghaderreen, 1918
(Cashman 40) Photograph of John Dillon addressing the Ballaghaderreen anti-conscription meeting in May 1918.
photograph / Royal Dublin Fusiliers, SS Servia
Photograph, Officers of the 5th Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers who embarked on the SS Servia on February 14th, for South Africa. Clipping from magazine. Relating to 2nd Lieutenant Richard Francis Nugent.
photograph / Tom Devenish, Irish National Volunteers, 1914
Photograph of an officer in the uniform of the Irish National Volunteers, 1914. Written in pencil on back 'Tom Devenish, Captain, John Redmond's Volunteers, 1914. Mt. Ambrose'.obituary / Percival Lea Wilson, R.I.C., 1920
Obituary, decorated poster type, with photograph and details of Percival Lea Wilson, born 22 April 1887 in England. Joined the Royal Irish Constabulary 3 August 1910, made Detective Inspector First Class 15 June 1920. Fought in World War I. Said to have been in charge of a group of Irish prisoners...
souvenir / German, Templemore, World War I
Metal army supply water flask, made in Berlin, engraved and decorated as German Prisoner of War Art at Templemore Prisoner of War Camp, Ireland, World War I, by Albert Skirde, dated 15 October 1914. Front decorated with the German Eagle, with scroll reading 'Mit Gott fur Koenig und Vaterland'....
armband / Georgious Rex Volunteers, 1916
Armlet of the Officer's Training Corps, T.C.D., 1916. This force defended Trinity College Dublin during the 1916 Rising. Red flannel armlet with letters 'G.R.' in black, sewn on. 'G.R.' denotes the Georgious Rex Volunteers. On the back, written in ink, is 'OTC, T.C.D. 1916' (Officer Training Coprs...
button / Irish Volunteer / WWI, T.F. Gill, 1915
Irish Volunteers Belt. Worn by T.F. Gill throughout World War I and bearing as souvenir badges etc. Derbyshire, Australian Commonwealth Military Forces, Gordon Highlanders, Grenadier Button, Middlesex Regiment, two Canadian buttons, Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, a crown, London Irish button,...
service revolver / de Courcy Wheeler, 1916
Smith & Wesson service revolver owned by Major de Courcy Wheeler, the British Army Officer who accepted the surrender of Commandant Mallin and Countess Markievicz at the Royal College of Surgeons, 29th April, 1916. With a contemporary manuscript note signed H.E. de C. Wheeler 'Smith & Wesson...
drawing / The Crusaders
Original Indian ink drawing by Ernest Kavanagh, "The Crusaders". Group representing the Allies in the War of 1914-18, showing what, from the viewpoint of "The Irish Worker", were the real motives.
prison art / Newbridge, 1923
A medal made by George Plunkett in Newbridge Prison Camp, 1923. Silver. On obverse: cross with symbols of the Four Evangelists and decoration in Celtic design; reverse: inscription - do Éibhlin NicGiolla Pádraig ó dhuine i mbraighdeanas i gCampa i nDroichead Nuadh MCMXXIII. On edge, inscription -...
pickelhaube / Germany, 1914-16
Other Ranks' helmet, pickelhaube, German, c.1914-1916. Kingdom of Bavaria. Retrieved from Thiepval, Somme Sector, 1st July 1916, first day of the Battle of the Somme. Leather with brass fittings and plate, inscribed 'IN TREUE FEST' (In Loyalty Steadfast). Spike missing. Bullet hole to right temple.
postcard photograph / John Loder, 1945
Postcard photograph of John Loder, c. 1945. Loder was born William John Muir Lowe, the son of Brigadier General William Henry Muir Lowe. Loder was his father's Aid de Camp in Dublin during the week of the Easter Rising, 1916, and was present at the surrender. He had previous served with the 15th...
souvenir / Frongoch, 1916
Copy book written by a German prisoner of war in Frongoch Prison Camp, 1916. The camp was occupied by Germans previous to arrival of Irish prisoners. Mostly headlines and single words; some addresses. Picked up by Patrick Ronan in Frongoch, 1916.
ring / Royal Munster Fusiliers, WWI
Silver napkin ring holder inscribed 'V.C.Y' - initials of relative of Markey family. Also inscribed 'Sommes 1916, Messines, 1917, Ypres 1917, and Poel Chappelle 1918, March 1918'. Battle hounours of the 8th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers.