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.
reproduction / Colonel Thomas J. Kelly
Colonel Thomas J. Kelly. Leader of 1867 Rising. Photocopy of 4pp letter of 24 March 1867, from New York to his mother. (Accompanying this is a typed note about his grandchildren and a 3pp article by Clare Healy about him from a school journal).
reproduction / Colonel Thomas J. Kelly
Colonel Thomas J. Kelly. Leader of 1867 Rising. Photocopy of 4pp letter of 24 March 1867, from New York to his mother. (Accompanying this is a typed note about his grandchildren and a 3pp article by Clare Healy about him from a school journal).
painting / The Old Port at Fort Erie, Canada, 1866
Painting, by George Lee Le Mesurier Taylor. Titled The Old Port at Fort Erie, Canada, June 1866. ‘Where the Fenians landed in June 1866. Over the water is the United States of America’. Originally part of the Pescod Collection - No. 10319.
painting / The Smuggler's Home, 1866
Painting, by George Lee Le Mesurier Taylor. Titled The Smuggler's Home, June 1866. ‘At the north-west corner of the garrison road is a tavern called The Smuggler’s Home’. The fence is where the members of the Toronto University were killed at the Battle of Ridgeway, June 1866 (George...
painting / The House into which Captain King's Volunteers Retired on the Return of the Fenians, 1866
Painting, by George Lee Le Mesurier Taylor. Titled The House into which Captain King's Volunteers Retired on the Return of the Fenians, 1866. ‘The remainder under Captain King taking cover behind a pile of cordwood, and behind houses and fences kept up a heavy fire, keeping the Fenians at bay for...
photograph / Court House, Port Elizabeth
Photograph of the Court House at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where investigations into the murder of James Carey by Patrick O'Donnell occured. Presented on 14 Feb. 1912 by F.W. Fitzsimmons, Director Port Elizabeth Museum.
newspaper article / Rescue of Kelly and Deasy in Manchester, 1867
Picture printed (illustration). Rescue of Kelly and Deasy in Manchester, 1867. Drawn by Tom Bolguidhir, one of the rescuers. Cut out of the "Gaelic American", 1907 or 1909.
photograph / Irish flag, 19th c.
Photograph, black and white, of 19th century Irish flag depicting Erin go Bragh on a belt enclosing a shield divided in four, each segment bearing the arms of one of the four provinces, surmounting 4 crossed flags, rayed above, a trace of a round tower to right behind, a seated hound to left in...
telegram / Thomas Clarke, Pentonville, 1898
Telegram from the Governor of Portland Prison to Albert Clarke, informing him of the release of his brother Thomas Clarke from Pentonville Prison after 15 and a half years of penal servitude, the following Thursday 29 September. Also informas him that Thomas wished him to meet him, and send...
print / The Fenian Insurrection: inquest on Mr. Cleary in the Courthouse at Kilmallock
Fenian Rising print. From 'Illustrated London News' entitled 'The Fenian Insurrection: inquest on Mr. Cleary in the Courthouse at Kilmallock'.resource / Ballymacoda Raid, 1867
Ballymacoda Raid, 1867. Photocopy of illustrated article, Ex Cork Examiner 6 March 1967.
membership card / Politcal Prisoners Maintanance Fund, c.1880
Politcal Prisoners Maintanance Fund Collection Card (LLL on back). Dated 26th July. Signed Mary Murphy, Secretary. One of a set of 5 Nationalist Membership Cards c.1880.
relic / Manchester Martyrs, Michael Larkin, 1867
Manchester Martyrs Relic. A lock of the hair of Michael Larkin. Enclosed in a frame, glazed, with his name underneath, and 'God Save Ireland' above.
relic / Manchester Martyrs, William Philip Allen, 1867
Manchester Martyrs Relic. A lock of the hair of William Philip Allen. Enclosed in a frame, glazed, with his name underneath, and 'God Save Ireland' above.
relic / Manchester Martyrs, Michael O'Brien, 1867
Manchester Martyrs Relic. A lock of the hair of Michael O'Brien. Enclosed in a frame, glazed, with his name underneath, and 'God Save Ireland' above.
newspaper article / Fenian Uprising, 1867
Four pages of the 'Penny Illustrated Paper', 16th March 1867. Pictures from Tallaght, Dublin during the Fenian Uprising.
print / The Battle of Tallaght
Print from the Penny Illustrated paper. Titled 'The Battle of Tallaght', 16 March 1867. The Fenian Rising; How a handful of Constabulary dispersed a regiment of the Rebels at Tallaght.
photograph / O'Donovan Rossa's Election Address, 1869
O'Donovan Rossa's election address, 1869 Tipperary election. Copy of a photograph of the election poster, on Museum print, from Seán O Luing's 'Rossa'.
newspaper / The Police Gazette / Hue & Cry, 14 Dec 1866
Framed copy of 'The Police Gazette'. Subtitle: 'Hue-and-Cry'. Dublin, Friday, December 11, 1866. Notice for the arrest of James Stephens as an 'active member of treasonable conspiracy against the Queen's authority in Ireland', and for his escape from Richmond Prison on 24th November 1865. Various...