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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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seal /

Green wax seal in frame. Obverse - full-length female figure on horseback being led by full-length male. Reverse - full-length female figure on throne holding orb and sceptre flanked by two full-length female figures.

 

jug / Henry Grattan & Henry Fitzgerald

Jug, English, about 1790. Creamware jug, baluster shape, c-shaped handle, pointed spout. Transfer-printed in black with, on one face the cartoon and legend, 'The Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Representative in Parliament for the City of Dublin. The Man of the People'. On the other face the cartoon and...

 

shell (ammunition) / WWI

World War 1 shell, fuse missing, no inscriptions. Probably a dummy made as an example, i.e. no fuse or explosive was inserted.

 

shell (ammunition) / WWI

World War 1 shell, fuse missing, no inscriptions. Probably a dummy made as an example, i.e. no fuse or explosive was inserted.

 

photograph / King's Road, Hove

Photograph of King's Road, Hove, England, late 19th/early 20th century. Relating to Charles Stewart Parnell.

 

watercolour / Kingsway, Charles Stewart Parnell

Drawing, watercolour, of 10 Walsingham Terrace, Brighton, now named "Kingsway in Hove", the house in which Charles Stewart Parnell died. By B.K.Phillips.

 

death certificate / Catherine Anna Parnell, 1991.

Death certificate of Catherine Anna Parnell, 1911 (copy from registrar).

 

death certificate / Charles Stewart Parnell, 1891

Death certificate of Charles Stewart Parnell, 1891 (copy from registrar).

 

marriage certificate / Parnell / O'Shea, 1891

Marriage certificate of Charles Stewart Parnell and Katherine O'Shea, 1891 (copy from registrar).

 

medal / Volunteers of Ireland, c.1780

Silver medal for Bravery to the Volunteers of Ireland c.1780. The obverse has a Maid of Erin harp between a crossed laurel spray tied with a double ribbon. On scrolls the following inscriptions Concitat ad Arma and below Volunteers of Ireland. On the reverse the following inscription: Conferr’d by...

 

commemorative plate / Daniel O'Connell / Repeal

Creamware plate, English, about 1828. Creamware plate moulded with leafed flowers around the rim, painted in red, yellow, green, purple, orange. Red painted rim. Transfer printed verse in well with design around of rose, shamrock and thistle, painted in red, green and purple. The verse commemorates...

 

photograph / Irish Republican Deportees, England, September 1917

Postcard photograph of Irish Republican Deportees in England 1917. Group photograph, taken in outdoors setting. Men named as Messrs. Ó Muirthile, Ó Maoilfhinn, McInerny, O'Connor, Manahan, Colivet, Brennan, Leddy. The postcard was sent to Séan T. Ó Ceallaigh by Micheál S. Ua Braonáin from...

 

invoice / Saracen's Head Inn, 1820-26

Bill for the Saracen's Head Inn, at Skinner Row, Snow Hill, England. Bill for carriage and porterage. Not dated but from between 1820 and 1826. One of a collection of documents relating to the Grattan Bellew Family, 1820-26, particularly James Grattan M.P. One of a collection of eighty shop and...

 

invoice / Kenworthy and Holts, Conveyances, 1822

Bill for Conveyance of 13 packages, one gig and others. Made out to James Grattan, from Kenworthy and Holts, England. Dated 12 July 1822. One of a collection of documents relating to the Grattan Bellew Family, 1820-26, particularly James Grattan M.P. One of a collection of eighty shop and...

 

invoice / Kenworthy and Holts, Conveyances, 1820-26

Bill for Conveyance of 4 packages. Made out to James Grattan, from Kenworthy and Holts, England. Dated 9 July, 1820-26. One of a collection of documents relating to the Grattan Bellew Family, 1820-26, particularly James Grattan M.P. One of a collection of eighty shop and tradesmen's bills of...

 

commemorative jug / Orange Institution

Orange Institution Jug, English, late 18th century. Jug, cream-coloured earthenware. Large bulbous body decreasing to base. Upright neck, pinched out spout, C-shaped handle applied from top. Russet band around rim, collar base and back of handle. Transfer-printed in green with the statue of King...

 

booklet / Defence against Gas, 1927

Defence against Gas, 1927, Provisional. 64 pp. booklet published by English War Office. Used by Irish Army c.1939.