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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.
commemorative plaque / 1798 The Death of Father Michael Murphy, 1898
'98 Centenary wall plaque entitled 1798 THE DEATH OF FATHER MICHAEL MURPHY. 8.5" x 7.6". With print of priest dropping his sword and group of armed men behind him. Probably English manufacture of 1898.resource / 1798 Memorial, Wexford
1798 Memorial ,Wexford. Photograph of unveiling of 6.8.1905 as reprinted in Enniscorthy Guardian, 30.5.1980.
badge / 1798 Commemoration
1798 Commemoration Association badge, probably Wicklow '98 Association's event at Glenmalure, 27 August 1939.
invitation / 1798 Commemoration, Wicklow
Wicklow '98 Association invitation card to commemoration event, 18 September 1938. To Mr D.M. Doyle of Dublin. Signed S.D. O'Connaire.
invitation / 1798 Commemoration, Wexford
Wexford '98 Commemoration Association invitation card to commemoration event on 26th June, Abbey Square, Enniscorthy.
commemorative figure / Henry Joy McCracken, 1898
Staffordshire Pottery figure of Henry Joy McCracken, 14 inches high, glazed finish. Stamped on the pedestal on which is left hand rest, a flag with a harp crossed by a pike and a homemade adaptation of a scythe with "Who Fears or Speak of '98"; "1798 1898" around.
invitation / 1798 Commemoration, Wicklow
Wicklow '98 Association invitation card to commemoration event at Glenmalure, 27 August 1939. Blank.
tombstone / Theobald Wolfe Tone
Portion of a grave or tombstone intended for Theobald Wolfe Tone's grave at Bodenstown. Limestone. Inscribed "Tone/763/ber 1798".
commemorative handkerchief / 1798 Centenary
1798 Centenary Handkerchief; printed in green with portraits of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (in centre), Samuel Neilson, Theobald Wolfe Tone, Robert Emmet, Henry Joy McCracken, Jemmy Hope, Napper tandy, Henry Jackson, Hamilton Rowan, Arthur O'Connor, Owen roe O'Neill and the brothers Sheares. Verses...
photograph / 1798 Memorial, Glen Imaal, Wicklow
Postcard photograph, or 1798 Memorial Card, Glen Imaal, Wicklow. Postcard depicting 'Dwyer McAllister Memorial and 1798 Period Cottage, with message from artist or stonecutter to donor's father who was one of the originator's of the memorial. Used, postal date 23 October 1952.
badge / 1798 Club, Ballinakill
Green cloth badge - '98 Club', Ballinakill. 1898 Commemoration. 'Comerford / Crennan' at top. With gold fringe of gold braid.
resource / The Memory of the Dead
Photograph and copy of a poem. 'The Memory of the Dead', from 'The Nation'. With a photograph of John K. Ingram.
photograph / 'The Memory of the Dead'
Photograph and copy of a poem. 'The Memory of the Dead', from 'The Nation'. With a photograph of John K. Ingram. HH:1941.19.1 - 28. Collection of papers and pictures relating to 1798, 1848, the Fenians and the 1798 Centenary.