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.
postcard photograph / Michael John Carney, RIC / Royal Irish Regiment
Photograph, postcard, of Michael Carney, District Inspector, Gort, in uniform, with his men. Royal Irish Constabulary, Gort, Co. Galway, August 1921. Part of a collection of artefacts relating to Michael John Carney, a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, later of the Royal Irish Regiment during...
poster / Irish Government, 1920-22
Poster / picture Irish Government. President De Valera, Richard Mulcahy, Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Seán MacKeon. With photographic images of each. Circa 1920 to 1922 and following.
newspaper cutting / Fleming Family
Newspaper cutting, with photograph of Father Griffin of Galway, taken after the discovery of the body. November 1920. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta', belonging to Michael Fleming, and containing a number of letters, obituaries and other mementoes...
photograph / Fleming Family
Postcard addressed to Michael Fleming at Clarenbridge, Co. Galway. With FF logo. Dated 7 February 1919. With O'Hanrahans Tobacconist and Bookseller, Dublin, stamp. Signature not legible. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta', belonging to Michael...
telegram / Fleming Family
Telegram or telegraph, dated 10 September 1921 from Kilcolgan. Text reads 'Michael Fleming Kilcolgan alaive and free again good health'. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta', belonging to Michael Fleming, and containing a number of letters, obituaries...
invitation / Fleming Family
Postcard invitation from the South Galway C.C. Sinn Fein Ceili to the Flemings, to be held at the Temperance Hall, Loughrea 6 April 1918. Addressed to Michael Fleming. Secretaries - B.J. Fallon and J.J. Flynn. Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg Chriosta',...
legal document / Michael Fleming Junior, 1917
Summary of evidence in the case of Michael Fleming Junior of Clarenbridge, with an offence under the Defence of the Realm Regulations. Including drilling and saluting the Sinn Fein flag. As signed by RIC Constable J. Murphy and Captain O.L. Moriarty of the 4th Royal Munster Fusiliers. June...
letter / Somewhere in Ireland
Letter, typescript copy of. Addressed to Mother from 'Rover', a son of Michael Fleming, Wednesday, 'Somewhere in Ireland'. Copy of letter sent while on the run, during the War of Independence period. With greeting and news of a Mr O'Hanlon's son being killed by the Black and Tans. Part of a...letter / Christopher Ennis, 1916-21
Letter to Christopher, Kit, interned in Frongoch, from his brother Ned, dated 19 July 1916. Mentions the food parcel he previously sent to Knutsford Prison. Part of a collection of material relating to the service of Christopher Ennis, or Kit Ennis, Irish Volunteers, F. Company, 2nd Battalion,...
photograph / Rogers Brothers Foundry, Bailieboro, 1920-21
Photograph showing a group of five men, seated, placed before them a large number of cast grenade cases, and some wooden models. The photograph was taken in Rogers Brothers Foundry, Barrack Street, Bailieboro, by Hugh Rooney, where the grenades were made between 1920-1921 by the men shown. No note...
application form / Dáil Loan, 1919.
Printed form. Prospectus and form of application, Dáil Loan, 1919. Internal Loan. 3pp. One of two copies.
application form / Dáil Loan, 1919
Printed form. Prospectus and form of application, Dáil Loan, 1919. Internal Loan. 3pp. One of two copies.
terrestrial globe / Liam Mellows
Terrestrial globe, which was at one time the property of Liam Mellows; and was left by him in John Reynolds' office during his absence in Autumn 1921, without any intimation of it's ultimate destination. On black wooden stand.
receipt / Republican Court, 1921
Republican Court Document 1921. Receipt of 31 December 1921 from Dublin Total Abstinence League and Workmen's Club, 41 York Street, for £25 in respect of rent of premises for 'South Dublin Republican Court'.
photograph / Laurence Ginnell, Argentinia, 1921
Photograph of Laurence Ginnell, taken by J.P. Flynn, leaving the Irish Hall in Salon San Patricio in Rosario de Sante Fe, Argentina, in October 1921. Mr Ginnell visited the Argentine for the purpose of organising public opinion there.
photograph / Mary MacSwiney & Sarah Mellows, U.S.A.
Photograph of Mary MacSwiney and Mrs Sarah Mellows in the U.S.A., 1920s.
badge / On War Service, 1915
British Government Ordnance Badge. Lapel badge, bronze, of the type issued to workers in English Government Ordnance Factories during World War 1 to show that they were engaged in war-work and to prevent them being given white feathers. 1.7 x 4.5 cm overall crowned oval band enclosing a shield...
declaration / Declaration of Irish Independence, 1919
Pamphlet, one sheet folded. 'The Declaration of Irish Independence', as passed at the First Dail. Printed in Dublin in 1919 by Fergus O'Connor.
album / Patrick O'Hanlon, Ballykinlar, 1920-21
Ballykinlar Autograph Album, kept by Patrick O'Hanlon at No. 1 camp there 1920, 1921, including signatures, cartoons, quotations, sketches and water colours.