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.
 


portrait / General Edward Roche
Print, Insurgent, General Edward Roche. HH:1937.156.6.1-22. Framed Photographic Prints and Coloured Engravings. HH:1937.156.6.11 - Edward Roche.
 
resource / Battle of Tara plan, 1798
Photograph of plan of the Battle of Tara 1798. 1792 Beaufort map of Ireland. Detail from Kilkeel to Dalkey, showing positions of forces, and having note takers signature. Full plate.
 
resource / Battle of Tara plan, 1798
Photograph of plan of the Battle of Tara 1798. 1792 Beaufort map of Ireland. Detail from Killelogher to Miltown showing position of the forces on 29 May 1798. Full plate.
 
resource / Battle of Tara note, 1798
Photograph of note re Battle of Tara 1798. Stuck on to1792 Beaufort map of Ireland. Three lines of writing. Fragment only, note was incomplete. Full plate.
 
resource / Battle of Tara note, 1798
Photograph of note re Battle of Tara 1798. 1792 Beaufort map of Ireland. Fragment with 8 lines of writing. Ref. to field pieces and signed 'C Rand on the spot'. Full plate.
 
resource / Battle of Tara pike, 1798
Photograph of drawing of a pike used at Tara 1798. Stuck on to 1792 Beaufort map of Ireland, listing also forces of the crown involved and giving details of dimensions of the pike, signed 'C Rand on the spot'. Full plate.
 
resource / Battle of Tara, 1798
Photograph of note re Battle of Tara 1798. Stuck on to 1792 Beaufort map of Ireland giving details of numbers. on each side, listing casualties sustained and signed 'C Rand on the spot Lewes'. Full plate.
 
resource / Vinegar Hill Pike
Vinegar Hill Pike. Article re ex Nationalist (Carlow) 16.9.1977.
 

typescript / The Battle of Vinegar Hill
The Battle of Vinegar Hill. Typescript of ballad taken from Fr. Kavanagh's "Popular History of the Insurrection of 1798". Modern copy.
 


portrait / Lord Edward Fitzgerald
Lord Edward Fitzgerald, framed print, with text. HH:1937.156.6.1-22. Framed Photographic Prints and Coloured Engravings. HH:1937.156.6.4 - Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
 

pamphlet / The Declaration, Resolutions, and Constitution of the Societies of United Irishmen
Printed folder: The Declaration, Resolutions, and Constitution of the Societies of United Irishmen; 8pp. two copies, one decayed. Found in the thatched roof of a house in Port Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal (during demolition) in May, 1936. The owner of the house at that time was Mr. John Boyce. He...
 


pamphlet / The Declaration, Resolutions, and Constitution of the Societies of United Irishmen
Printed folder: The Declaration, Resolutions, and Constitution of the Societies of United Irishmen; 8pp. two copies, one decayed. Found in the thatched roof of a house in Port Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal (during demolition) in May, 1936. The owner of the house at that time was Mr. John Boyce. He...
 

note book / Accounts, 1797
Jotter or account book bearing dates in 1797, in which two copies of the The Declaration, Resolutions, and Constitution of the Societies of United Irishmen were found wrapped in. Found in the thatched roof of a house in Port Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal (during demolition) in May, 1936. The owner...
 

resource / 1798 / 1803
Four articles from The Irish Press, August and September 1953. 'Arthur, Roger and Feargus; The Mad O'Connors', 'Leonard McNally; The Great Rogue', 'Castlebar will recall the Great Races', 'Reluctant Traitors; Two Tragedies of '03'.
 
resource / Moores of Moore Hall, 1798
Moores of Moore Hall and 1798. Article re ex Connacht Telegraph, 1.10.1980.
 


portrait / Arthur Wolfe, 1798
Framed drawing of Arthur Wolfe, former Attorney General, later Lord Kilwarden, Chief Justice of Ireland (1798). Chief Justice at the time of John Clinch's death and Fr. Harold's transportation. He did his best to save Fr. Harold but was overruled by lord Castlereagh. He lived at Newlands and was...
 

portrait / Robert Emmet
Framed portrait of Robert Emmet, in chalk and watercolour. "1778 - 1803" underneath.
 


map / Croppies Acre, 1798
Plan or map of the Croppies Acre site, Dublin, burial place of the 1798 rebels. Colour.
 

document / Memorial of the Croppies Acre
Written description of the Croppies Acre, Dublin, burial place of the 1798 rebels. Printed. One page. Framed for display
 

