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.
 
plan / Battle of the Boyne
Plan of the Battle of the Boyne (made for the Right Honourable John Foster, last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons).
 
statue / King William III Equestrian
Miniature model of the King William III equestrian statue on College Green, Dublin, by Grinling Gibbons. Statue of full-length male figure on horseback, mounted on a pedestal, inscribed on each side, and enclosed by railings. 'King Wm III of Glorious Memory Born No. 4th 1650', 'Died March 8th...
 
plate / Williamite Commemoration
Williamite Commemorative pottery wall plaque. Transfer printed, green border. Depicting King Willliam on white horse to right. The slogan NO SURRENDER below. 9 x 8 inches.
 
plate / Williamite Commemoration
Williamite plaque, 19th century. 8 1/2 inch by 7 1/2 inch. Dish shaped, pink edges with two holes on top overlap for suspension. In base of dish, King Billy looking to left on a white horse going right a sword in his outstretched right arm, over the slogan NO SURRENDER.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
commemorative mug / Orange Order
Orange Order mug. 12.2 cm. high, 12.2 cm. diam., with portrait of King William III on horseback, and two large panels of masonic and astrological symbols and Orange Order Slogans. Probably Staffordshire, late 18th centruy.
 
resource / Williamite plaque
Williamite plaque, photograph of. Plaque shows the King on a white horse, a sword in his right hand pointing on and up; with the legend NO SURRENDER beneath.
 
commemorative jug / Orange Institution
Orange Institution Jug, English, late 18th century. Jug, cream-coloured earthenware. Large bulbous body decreasing to base. Upright neck, pinched out spout, C-shaped handle applied from top. Russet band around rim, collar base and back of handle. Transfer-printed in green with the statue of King...
 
commemorative cup / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
 
commemorative saucer / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
 
commemorative cup / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
 
commemorative saucer / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
 
commemorative jug / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...
 
commemorative bowl / William III, c. 1870
Tea set, Glasgow, about 1870. Part of a teaset of white earthenware, high glaze. Saucer with deep bowl, slight well. Cup with straight everted sides, angular handle. Bowl straight slightly eberted sides; cream jug of barrel-shape, inverted at neck, wide-splayed mouth, angular handle. Decorated in...