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.
souvenir / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Hotel Metropole 1916 Relic. Five sugar bowls, fused together by action of the fire, salvaged from the Hotel Metropole, Dublin, after the burning, Easter 1916. Blackened from fire. A contemporary label has been affixed to one side, reading "Souvenier of Rising 1916. Metropole Hotel".
Sam Browne belt / Countess Markievicz, 1916
Sam Brown belt. Brown leather with brass fittings. Worn by Countess Constance Markievicz, along with a bandolier, as Commandant in Irish Citizen Army during Easter Week, 1916 and afterwards.
bandolier / Countess Markievicz, 1916
Bandolier, brown leather. Worn by Countess Constance Markievicz, along with a Sam Browne belt, as Commandant in Irish Citizen Army during Easter Week 1916 and afterwards.
photograph / 1916 Rising, aftermath
Set of four photographs, of Dublin after the Easter Rising, two of city centre buildings, one of destroyed machinery (maybe a press from the G.P.O.), and one of a government (possibly early Dáil?) meeting.
prayer book / Fleming Family
Copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta'. Belonging to Michael Fleming, and containing a number of letters, obituaries and other mementoes of the 1916 to the 1930s. Tóraidheacht air (sic?) Lorg Chríosda (a translation of the Imitatio Christi by Thomas a Kempis), owned by...
greeting card / Fleming Family
Postcard, St. Patrick's Day, handpainted with shamrock and round tower motif, with an Irish Tricolour flag flying from the tower. 'Poblacht na hEireann Abu' written below. Sent to Michael Fleming from Tessie Walsh. No date. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg...
photograph / Fleming Family
Photographic portrait of Michael Fleming in his uniform, including the Sam Browne belt and prison cap, numbered 214. Copy by Keogh Brothers Ltd of 124 St. Stephen's Green and 75 Lower Dorset Street, Dublin. In frame. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father...
seal / Fleming Family
Seal of stamp matrix, one of a pair, with wooden handle and brass matrix, with 'I.R.' for Irish Republic. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co....seal / Fleming Family
Seal or stamp matrix, one of a pair, with wooden handle and brass matrix, with 'I.R.' for Irish Republic. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co....
prison number / Michael Fleming, 1916
Disc, yellow felt with a leather strap, with prison number F2 20. One of a pair with F4 13. Numbered on both sides. This prison disc belonged to Michael Fleming. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph...
prison number / Fleming Family, 1916
Disc, yellow felt with a leather strap, with prison number F4 13. One of a pair with F2 20. Numbered on both sides. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge,...
autograph book / Michael Fleming, Galway, 1916
Copy of the Irish Catholic Prayer Book, in Irish and English, used by Michael Fleming, prison number q214, as an autograph book for fellow prisoners in Dartmoor, Lewes and Pentonville, 1916 to 1917. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his...
relic / Michael O'Hanrahan, 1916
Button taken from uniform of Michael O'Hanrahan on night before execution, 3 May 1916, and given by him to his sisters Eily and Cis in his cell at Kilmainham Gaol. Irish Volunteer tunic button, green leather, set in brass frame as a relic, for Captain Micéal O'Hannracáin, executed 4th May 1916....
pin badge / Big Bill Hayward / Jim Larkin
Big Bill Hayward, head and shoulders, also standing beside Jim Larkin. Two postcard photographs mounted together on piece of pink paper with legend 'Photographs of James Connolly and Larkin found by Gerald at Liberty Hall, Dublin ? Thursday ? Friday Easter Week 1916' written below. (This is an...
flag / General Post Office, 1916 Rising
Fragment of woollen textile, originally from the white coloured portion of the tricolour flag that flew over the General Post Office during the 1916 Rising.
tunic / Clann na nGael Girls Scouts
Tunic of uniform worn by lender, Mrs Mary Chadwick, as Captain, Clann na nGael Girls Scouts in the General Post Office and Jacobs' Factory Easter Week, 1916. Letters I.R.A. added c.1917. Buttons were sent from Belfast to lender from unknown source before Easter Week.
tunic / Alice Cashel, Cumann na mBan, 1916-1921
Uniform jacket or tunic, Cumann na mBan, 1916 period. As worn by the donor Miss Alice Cashel. Alice Cashel was a member of the Cork Branch of Sinn Fein and a founding member, with Annie McSwiney, of the Cork Cumann na mBan, before the Irish Volunteers were established there.
prison cap / Michael Fleming, Galway, 1916
Prison cap, number q214, which belonged to Michael Fleming, worn by him in Lewes Prison. Michael Fleming was interned in Lewes, Dartmoor, Pentonville and Frongoch Internment Camp, 1916 to 1917. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons...
newspaper cutting / George Fullerton
Newspaper obituary for George Fullerton, Irish Citizen Army, 1916, under Commdt. Mallin, interned in Frongach. Fought on Republican side in Civil War, 1922, in Hammond Hotel, Dublin, interned in Tintown and Mountjoy.