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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.
badge / 1798 Centenary
1798 Rebellion commemoration, 1898. Two badges, cloth. (1): badge made of rat tail braid in two colours, green and yellow. Centre a circle of green braid with figures 98 in yellow braid stitched on; around this green and yellow braid twisted in form of four open work shamrocks; two tassels...
badge / 1798 Centenary
1798 Rebellion commemoration, 1898. Two badges, cloth. (1): badge made of rat tail braid in two colours, green and yellow. Centre a circle of green braid with figures 98 in yellow braid stitched on; around this green and yellow braid twisted in form of four open work shamrocks; two tassels...
commemorative handkerchief / 1798 Commemoration, 1878
1798 handkerchief. Picture of Lord Fitzgerald in centre with shamrocks encircling, and '1798' above his head. At the four corners are Robert Emmet, Wolfe Tone, Insurgent General Edward Roche and Henry Joy Mc Cracken (in that order), also encircled with shamrocks but with harp above their heads.
badge / 1798 Centenary
'98 Centenary Badge showing a golden harp surmounted by a green pike and over a radiate '98' with a spray of shamrock on each side.
commemorative figure / Lord Edward Fitzgerald, 1898
Staffordshire Pottery Figure of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. 14.5 inches high, glazed finish. Stamped on the pedestal on which his left hand rests, a flag with a harp crossed by a pike and a homemade adaptation of a scythe with "Who Fears to Speak of '98" 1798. 1898 around.
cup / 1798 Commemoration
'98 Memorial Cup, of the type produced for the 1798 Rebellion commemorations in 1898. Domestic ware with a wreath of shamrock in brown around the rim and '98' over crossed flags (the one on left having a shamrock, the other a harp) repeated three times around the body. Historic breaks and...
badge / 1798 Cenentary
1798 Cenentary Badge. Enamelled bronze. Circular 2.4 cm. diam., with ring for suspension. OBV: A cross, the limbs in blue enamel with a trefoil in green at the centre of the intersection. Behind the cross, pikes with extend at the point into the border formed on an inner bronze circle. On red field...
commemorative medal / Wolfe Tone
Wolfe Tone commemorative medal, c. 1930. 2.8 cm. diameter, bronze. Reverse - blank. Obverse - bust of Tone to right over 'Wolfe Tone' with 'Commemoration' around below. All within the legend around above, 'Fianna Fail', around below, 'Break the Connection'.
newspaper supplement / Weekly Freeman '98 Almanac
Weekly Freeman '98 Almanac. Illustrated calendar of 1798, issued as Weekly Freeman supplement on 1 January 1898.
collection card / '98 Centenary Committee
'98 Centenary Committee. Lord Edward Branch Banner Fund collection card. Blank.resource / 1798 Commemoration handkerchief
1798 centenary handkerchief. Postcard size photograph of 19" sq. linen printed with illustration of Lord Edward Fitzgerald in centre and 12 other portraits around.
postcard photograph / Oliver Bond's House
Oliver Bond's House. Coloured postcard photograph of Lower Bridge Street, including the house with its memorial tablet, c.1900.
commemorative handkerchief / 1798 Rebellion Centenary
1798 Centenary handkerchief. Linen, white, 21 inches square, printed black on white. Depicting Lord Edward Fitzgerald within a shamrock wreath, a harp over his head. Portrayed across above, Samuel Neilson, Theobeld Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Henry Joy McCracken and James Hope; from Neilson down...resource / 1798 Memorial, Portarlington
1798 Memorial Portarlington. Cutting re unveiling ex Leinster Express, 12.5.1979.
music sheet / 'Willie Nelson', 1898
'Willie Nelson'. '98 ballad commemorative ballad by Anna Johnston. Published in sheet form by J.W. Boyd (Belfast) c. 1898.
lithograph / The United Irish Patriots 1798
The United Irish Patriots of 1798. Lithographic proof print depicting the leaders of the 1798 rebellion and listing Samuel Neilson, Michael Dwyer, John Sheares, William Corbett, Arthur O'Connor, A.H. Rowan, William Jackson, W.J. Mc Nevin, Matthew Teeling, Robert Emmet, Henry Sheares, Theobald...
leaflet / Ballinakill '98 Centenary
Leaflet with the Inscription for panels of Celtic Cross erected at Ballinakill in memory of the Martyrs of 1798, by the Ballinakill '98 Centenary Committee. Four verse of song, composed by John Patrick Dunne.
poster / Wolfe Tone and 98 Memorial
Two page leaflet advertising the National Fund for a Memorial in Dublin. The Wolfe Tone and 98 Memorial Committee, chaired by John O'Leary,with offices at 113 Capel Street, Dublin. Dated 17th March, 1900.
print / The Men of ‘98
Print, ‘The Men of ‘98’. Depicting the Death of Father Michael Murphy at Arklow, 9th June 1798, Michael Dwyer, William Orr, A. Hamilton Rowan and Thomas A. Emmet. Centenary print. Printed by James Walker and Co., Jones Road, Dublin. Framed, with a brass plate reading ‘Presented by Charles Emmet...