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.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of British soldiers assembled in College Park, Trinity College. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of ruins on Lower Abby Street, including the Garrison Soldiers' Club. 1916 photograph album, with photographs taken to show various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising and later of the executions of the leaders.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of a British airship coming up O'Connell Street / Sackville Street. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of a British airship passing over D'Olier Street. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of the front of the Four Courts, taken from the opposite side of River Liffey. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size. One of a sequence of three photographs. Scenes from a Sinn Fein / Republican parade or procession on 18 June 1916. Started at Adam and Eve's Church on Merchant's Quay to go to Dublin Castle. The marchers booed the sentries, police and soldiers. The police baton...
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size. One of a sequence of three photographs. Scenes from a Sinn Fein / Republican parade or procession on 18 June 1916. Started at Adam and Eve's Church on Merchant's Quay to go to Dublin Castle. The marchers booed the sentries, police and soldiers. The police baton...
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size. One of a sequence of three photographs. Scenes from a Sinn Fein / Republican parade or procession on 18 June 1916. Started at Adam and Eve's Church on Merchant's Quay to go to Dublin Castle. The marchers booed the sentries, police and soldiers. The police baton...
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of a group of 26 wounded military, in a hospital ward. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of O'Connell Bridge and Eden Quay, taken from D'Olier Street. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of Kelly's Fort and the O'Connell statue, taken from Bachelors Walk. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of O'Connell Street / Sackville Steet, taken from Kelly's Fort corner looking towards Nelson's Pillar. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
photograph / Smith Album, 1916
A mounted print, snapshot size, of the ruins of the Dublin Clothing Company on the quay. 1916 photograph album, with photographs showing various scenes of destruction and activity in the immediate aftermath of the Rising.
 
souvenir / G.P.O., 1916
A portion of the glass roof of the General Post Office, recovered from the debris after the destruction of the building at the end of Easter week, 1916.
 
souvenir / GPO, 1916
Portion of the roof of the General Post Office. A small strip of metal, distorted and bent from the heat of the fire of the burning building at the end of Easter week, 1916.
 
fragment / General Post Office, 1916
Fragments of flag found in the ruins of the General Post Office about Monday, May 1st, 1916. It consists of two scraps of bunting material; one, leaf-shaped, white, c.4" x 2"; the other in shape of two leaves joined together along side, c.4" x 3", more than half the material being green and the...
 
photograph / Irish Rebellion, 1916
Postcard photograph - Irish Rebellion, May 1916 series. The General Post Office, Dublin. (Rebel Headquarters), interior, destroyed. Printed by The Daily Sketch for Easons, Dublin.
 
souvenir / G.P.O., 1916
Mechanism of a telephone generator, metal frame with bell, wire coils and cog wheels, removed from the General Post Office, Dublin, after Easter week, 1916. Received by Edward Mulcahy at the time as a souvenir.
 
photograph / General Post Office, 1916
Photograph of the ruins of the General Post Office, interior wall, in 1916. By Independent Newspapers Ltd.