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 / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. D. Delany, 10 years penal servitude, Dublin, 1883.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. M. Kinsella, 20 years penal servitude, Dublin, 1882.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. M. Casey, Life, Dublin, 1882.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. J. Mullet, Life, Dublin, 1883.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. E. O'Brien, 10 years penal servitude, Dublin, 1883.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. E. McCaffrey, 10 years penal servitude, Dublin, 1883.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. L. Hanlon, Life, Dublin, 1883.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. William Maroney / Moroney, 10 years penal servitude, Dublin, 1883.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. Patrick Delany, Life, Dublin, 1883.
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. James Fitzharris, Life, Dublin, 1883. (Skin the Goat Fitzharris, the cabman).
 

photograph / The Invincibles, 1883
Photograph, one of a collection of 16, of prisoners sentenced for their complicity in The Invincibles Movement, 1883. With their names and sentence, place and date photoprinted. M. Walsh, Life, Dublin, 1883.
 

Fenian bond / $10
Fenian bond, $10. Numbered 2108. Signed by Michael Scanlon and O'Sullivan. Undated, c. 1860 to 1866.
 

cab plate / Phoenix Park Murders, 1882
The Invincibles. The Phoenix Park murders of Lord Cavendish and Thomas Burke, 1882. Hackney Driver's badge, iron. Carried by James Fitzharris, who drove the Invincibles to and from the Phoenix Park when Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Henry Burke were murdered, 1882. Elliptical iron plate, 4...
 

illustration / Joe Brady in the Dock
Print of Joe Brady, the Invincible. 5.8 x 7.3 inches entitled 'The Phoenix Park Trials, Joe Brady in the Dock'. Originally issued as a supplement to the Weekly Freeman. 14 April 1966.
 
flag / Catalpa, 1876
Flag of the Catalpa. U.S. flag, 14' by 10', 36 stars. The flag under which the whaler ship Catalpa, under Captain George Anthony, travelled on its Freemantle Mission to rescue six Fenians from Western Australia in 1876.
 
resource / "Skin the Goat" FitzHarris
"Skin the Goat FitzHarris" blow up of newspaper photograph with accompanying account - of a piece of needlework depicting a heart over a Celtic Cross said to have been done by FitzHarris while imprisoned after the Invincible assassinations. On same 'Blow Up' is death notice of Ellen Mulligan (ob...
 
resource / Fenian escape, Arklow, 1882
Fenian escape via Arklow, c.1882. Article from Wicklow People, 1.4.1977 concerning escape after the Invincibles Assasinations of Burke and Cavendish.
 

circular / United Brotherhood, 1877
United Brotherhood Circular. U.S.A. 1 February 1877, listing recent expulsions and rejections.
 

circular / United Brotherhood, 1877
United Brotherhood Circular. U.S.A. 12.2.1877 soliciting funds for the Skirmishing Fund.
 
