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.
uniform / Sean McGlynn, Irish Volunteer, 1916
Irish Volunteer tunic, 1916. The tunic was worn by Sean McGlynn at position - South Dublin Union, Mount Brown. The position was occupied by about 52 Volunteers and was held from Easter Monday until the following Sunday. The leaders in the position were Eamon Ceannt and Cathal Brugha. There were...
uniform / Fianna Éireann, 1916
Fianna Éireann tunic. A green shirt of the Irishtown Fianna Scouts, worn in the Four Courts in 1916 by John Kelly of Irishtown, Dublin. In the pocket of this was an manuscript note re. assembly.
mobilisation order / John Kelly, Fianna Eireann, 1916
Note, undated, in pencil, reading 'Be down at half past three in the club room (uniform on) We are going....' [section of paper missing]. Possibly a mobilisation order. Found in the pocket of a Fianna Eireann tunic of Irishtown Fianna Scouts, worn in 1916 by John Kelly of Irishtown, Dublin.
holster / Fianna Éireann, John Kelly, 1916
Leather holster for revolver, of John Kelly of Fianna Éireann. Irishtown Fianna Scouts. Used at the Four Courts during Easter Week, 1916.
souvenir / GPO, 1916
A piece of barbed wire from the barricade erected by the Irish Volunteers opposite the General Post Office during Easter week, 1916.
shell (ammunition) / G.P.O., 1916
1916 Rising shell, ex. General Post Office. Twelve pounder shell recovered unexploded from the ruins of the G.P.O. in 1924. Charge removed.
shell (ammunition) / G.P.O., 1916
1916 Rising shell, found in the wreckage of the General Post Office, 1916.
tin can bomb / 1916 Rising
Home-made bomb, of the type used in the 1916 period. Bourneville chocolate tin (marked on bottom) filled with iron shrapnel fragments, which would also have co0ntained a black gunpowder. Top burst due to mis-firing.
ammunition / Home-made, 1916 Rising
Home-made grenade, fashioned from something like a section of iron piping or a large iron rivet, scored in sections on the outside. Hollow interior, with screw at either end, the base screw fixed and the top screw holding in place a fuse with a wooden plug. 1916 period.
military stretcher / Magazine Fort
Military stretcher. Dublin, early 20th century, used after the attack on the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park on the Monday of Easter Week, 1916. Stretcher made of wood, cotton and metal. Two wooden poles, rounded at ends to form handles. Linking the poles at each end is a lever-like hinge, iron,...
sign / 'Helga', 1916
Name plate of TSS Helga, the Fisheries Patrol Vessel from which Liberty Hall was shelled on the Wednesday of Easter Week, 1916. Five brass 5" sans-ceraph block letters, screwed to wooden board 28" by 7.75" with rounded ends.
flag / 'Helga', 1916
Blue ensign flag of TSS. 'Helga', the gun boat which shelled Liberty Hall during the Easter Rising 1916. Blue hop-sack cloth. Fly, 4'., hoist, 2' 6", with Union Jack in top left hand corner. In centre of ensign, yellow harp with eight white strings, surrounded by...
cricket bat / Elvery's, O'Connell Street, 1916 Rising
Cricket bat with a .303 bullet embedded in front section, shot while it was on display in the window of Elvery's shop premises in Sackville Street, Dublin, during the 1916 Rising combat. Inscribed in ink 'Easter Week 1916' beside bullet. Also 'From front window'.
pistol / Ned Daly, 1916 Rising
Ned Daly's Mauser pistol, serial number 87601, complete with wooden stock. As used by him at the Four Courts during the 1916 Rising.
souvenir / Helga, 1916
A shell base fired at Liberty Hall from the British gun boat the 'Helga' during the 1916 Rising, with paper label inscribed as such. Base stamped with year of prouction 1915.
shell casing / 'Helga', 1916
Shell-case fired from the 'Helga', at Liberty Hall during the Easter Week Rising. Shell manfunctioned as it fired, resulting in its form being twisted.
hat / Michael Fleming, Ashbourne, 1916
A hat worn by Irish Volunteer Michael Fleming of Drumcondra, at the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916.
souvenir / Belvedere Place, 1916
Framed picture, with bullet hole in lower right hand side. Label reads "bullet attached, went through picture and wall at No. 5 Belvedere Place, off the North Circular Road, Dublin. Bullet barely missed the lady occupant Easter Week, Thursday, 1916... Miss Annie McSweeney". Bullet (EW.1035a)...
trophy / Defence of Trinity, Cadet Corporal P.J. Killeen, 1916
Silver cup awarded to Defenders of Trinity College Dublin, 1916 Rising. Awarded to Cadet Corporal P.J. Killeen. Engraved one side is DEFENCE OF T.C.D./SINN FEIN REBELLION/EASTER 1916 and on the other side CADET CORPL P.J. KILLEEN. 8 cm. high and 7 cm. wide overall, with 'Regd 307558' stamped on...