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.
death mask / Robert Emmet
Death mask of Robert Emmet. Plaster, late 18th century.
newsheet / Dublin Castle, 1798
Dublin Castle Government issued war bulletin, 29 May 1798. Printed by Grierson and announcing the Kildare surrender to Lake.
medal / Hacketstown, 1798 Rebellion
Medal, gold, circular. Engraved on two ribbands, above - PROTECTORS, below - OF HACKETSTOWN. In centre May 25th 1798. Reverse, on two ribbands, above - SUPRESSORS OF, and below - REBELLION. In centre KING AND COUNTRY. Loop above for suspension. To commemorate the defence of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow,...
engraving / Henry Joy McCracken
Engraving, framed, of Henry Joy McCracken. HH:1937.156.6.1-22. Framed Photographic Prints and Coloured Engravings. HH:1937.156.6.13 - Henry Joy McCracken.
pass / Erin go Bragh! / Sheares Brothers
Sheares Brothers (John and Henry). Paper pass held by one of the brothers about 1803. Pink paper on which is hand-written ERIN GO BRAGH! in ink. With it, and referring to it a note as follows: REBEL PASS. TAKEN OUT OF COUNCELLOR SHEARE'S POCKET BOOK (BEFORE HIS EXECUTION IN DUBLIN, 1803) (sic) BY...
reproduction / The Death of Wolfe Tone
Print, colour, titled 'The Death of Wolfe Tone'. By W.C. Mills, 1897. Reproduction.
print / Captain Swayne Pitch Capping the People of Prosperous, 1798
Engraving, titled 'Captain Swayne Pitch Capping the People of Prosperous'. 1798 Rebellion.
journal / Portadown Infantry, 1821-22
Order book and journal, Portadown Infantry, 29th November 1821 to June 1822. Includes details or orders, punishments and discipline, payments to local merchants, weapons and armour, copies of letters.
engraving / The Battle of Arklow, 1798
Coloured engraving of the Battle of Arklow, fought on 9th June 1798. From Jones's Narrative of the Rebellion of 1798.
print / Reverend John Murphy
Print from the Weekly Freeman, 1913. Reverend John Murphy of Boolavogue. HH:1940.44.1-41. Collection of pictures etc. taken of Irish History 1798 - 1905. HH:1940.44.34 - Picture from the Weekly Freeman - Reverend J. Murphy.
reproduction / General Lazare Hoche
Photographic print of General Lazare Hoche. Copy of the original from the book "La Vie de Lazare Hoche", by Georges Girard, Paris, 1926. Framed. Copy made by the museum from a copy owned by the Film Censor, Dr Richard J. Hayes.
relic / Fr John Murphy, Boolavogue, 1798
Piece of crimson silk brocade, about 3" by 1.5", said to be part of a vestment worn by Fr John Murphy of Boolavogue. Given to the father of Brother Bernard Doyle (James Doyle, Tuckmill) by a Mrs Clarke. This note was attached when James Doyle received it 'Presented by Mrs Clarke, Baltinglass, as...resource / French at Killala, 1798
French at Killala, 1798. Letter ex Connaught Telegraph 24.5.1978 re chain of fires along the Erris coast on the ocassion of the landing.resource / The Battle of Clonard, 1798
The Battle of Clonard, 1798. Xeroxcopy of article re ex Ballyna, 1979.resource / Killala, Ballina, 1798
Killala, Ballina in 1798. Article re ex Western People, 26.11.1980.
portrait / Rev. John Murphy
Rev. John Murphy of Boolavogue. Print issued with the Weekly Freeman and National Press 10 September 1898.
article / How Tone's Grave was Found
Newspaper article - 'How Tone's Grave was Found', The Irish Press, 24 July 1937. Relating to the portion of a tombstone intended for Wolfe Tone's grave at Bodenstown (HH:1941.66). Framed for display.
relic / Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Skeletal remains of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Two cervical vertebrae and one metatarsal (foot) bone from the second coffin (larger). Supporting documentation states that the bones and skull were in the third coffin.
relic / Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Piece of lead from the coffin of Lord Edward Fitzgerald.