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.
souvenir / Artillery and Grenadiers, 18th century
Calabash gourd, carving depicts military scene. Artillery and Grenadiers, early 18th century, possibly Dutch, uniforms on top part c. 1700, and lower part dated a little later. Possibly connected to the Williamite Wars. With a metal, iron, cap.resource / Galloping Hogan, 1690
Galloping Hogan. 1690. Article about. Ex Limerick Leader 12.2.1977commission / John Taylor, Jacobite Army, 1688
Commission on parchment, from Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Baron of Talbotstown Viscount Baltinglass and Lord Deputy of Ireland, appointing a John Taylor as Captain of a Troop of Dragoons in a regiment of the Jacobite Army, 11 December 1688. One sheet, with seal. Williamite Wars.
book / How Matters were carried on all along in Ireland by the late King James. 1698
A True Representation to the King and People of England, How Matters were carried on all along in Ireland by the late King James in the favour of the Irish Papists there; from his Accession to the Crown to the tenth of April 1689 by an Impartial Eye-Witness. London, printed by Richard Chiswell, at...
portrait / General John O'Sullivan
Copy of a miniature of General John O'Sullivan, (born c.1700). General in the French Army, and in the Williamite-Jacobite War.
reproduction / Henry West, Earl of Meath's Rgt of Foot, 1689
Photograph of a Commission to Henry West to be Adjutant in the Earl of Meath's Regiment of Foot, 1689. Williamite Army. Signed Nottingham. 9" x 6 1/2"
reproduction / James II, 1689
Typescript of a 1689 commission on parchment. Captain's commission, granted to James McDonnell to serve as Captain in Lord Viscount Dillon's Regiment of Foot. Granted by James II in 1689. Signed by Nagle.commission / Dillon Regiment, 1689
Commission paper for (name obliterated) to be a Captain of a Company, Dillon's Regiment of Foot, 1689. Jacobite Army. Signed R. Nagle. Parchment. One sheet, with seal.resource / Sieges of Limerick, 1690-91
Sieges of Limerick, 1690-1691. Article ex Limerick Leader, 23.2.1980, concerning 3 paintings by contemporary painter on the theme.
print / The Siege of Athlone
‘The Siege of Athlone’, scene dated July 1691. Copy of a German published print. Framed.
commemorative jug / Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen
Jug, possibly Staffordshire. Jug of the "Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen".
commemorative jug / William III
Jug, Staffordshire. Highly glazed creamware jug, deep collar, C-shaped handle. Transfer-printed and painted with William III on horseback on one face, and the horoscope names, masonic symbols and "Protestant Ascendancy" on the other.
jug / King James II, 1689
Jug moulded in bamboo and rope pattern. Attached information claims that it was used by King James II to pour toddy, in the company of his army, at the house of the Cunningham Family at Castle Cooley, near Derry, in 1689. A note on the base reads that during the Siege of Derry King James II made...
commemorative jug / A.H. Beswick, 1826
Jug, Sunderland. Creamware jug. C-shaped handle. King William on horseback transfer printed under spout, "Let Brotherly love continue" on one face and "Protestant Ascendancy Holiness to the Lord" above masonic symbols on the other. Owner's name A.H. Beswick and 1826, under spout. Profuse floral...
commemorative jug / Richard Battersby, 1824
Jug, Sunderland. Creamware jug. King William on horseback transfer printed under spout "Let brotherly love continue" on one face, and "Protstant Ascendancy Holiness to the Lord", above masonic symbols on the other. Owner's name "Richard Battersby" and "1824" under spout.
commemorative plate / William III
Commemorative plate, glazed earthenware, with transfer print depicting William III Equestrian Statue, probably the Grinling Gibbons staute of College Green, Dublin. 'No Surrender 1690' underneath.
sword / William III, Battle of the Boyne, 1690
Sword; ivory hilt carved with a hound's head on either end and a recumbent hound between. Lion seated on a hound makes up the handle. Presented by William of Orange to an Irish family, the Bentincts, for William Bentinct's service at the Battle of the Boyne, 1690.
engraving / King William III, England
Engraving, William III of England. Drawn by B. Mulrenin. Printed and published at Allen's, Dublin, January 1820. HH:1937.34.2.1-40. Engravings of historic interest, singly: unmounted. William III.