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.
badge / The Spirit of Freedom
Irish Militant Republican Badge; with a golden bird carrying a machine gun on a green background. 'The Spirit of Freedom'. Enamelled metal. One of three badges bought at a Republican Stall, at Beechmount, Falls Road, Belfast, on the Saturday before the 75th. Anniversary of the Easter Rising 1916,...
badge / Easter Rising, commemoration
Badge, representation of the G.P.O., Dublin, in flames, and a combatant with a tricolour flag in foreground. With the words 'i gcuimhne aiséirí' dividing 19 / 16. One of three badges bought at a Republican Stall, at Beechmount, Falls Road, Belfast, on the Saturday before the 75th. Anniversary of...
memorial card / Irishmen who were executed by English Law, 1916
Memorial card, printed, for 'Irishmen who were executed by English law, 1916'
drawing / Thomas Ashe
Thomas Ashe. Drawing by Seán O'Sullivan, R.H.A., in charcoal. Details derived from photographs of the person represented. 19 inches by 14.5 inches.
photograph / Cumann na mBan
Photograph. Cumann na mBan Convention. St. Enda's, 1916.
anniversary card / Thomas Kent
Card commemorating the First Anniversary of the execution of Thomas Kent. Reads - I gcuimhne ar Thomas R. Ceannt (In Memory of Thomas R. Kent), Commandant, Cork Brigade I.R.A., Who Died for Ireland 9th May 1916.
souvenir / Con Colbert, Irish Volunteers, 1916
An Irish Volunteer button from Captain Con Colbert's tunic. An I.V. button which has been re-formed into a badge, set onto a tricolour ribbon, in commemoration. Presented in a Hopkins & Hopkins Goldsmith's (Dublin) jewllers box of blue velvet.
pin badge / Tricolour, 1916-17
A tricolour pin badge c.1916, 1917. Of a kind worn a short time after the 1916 Rising. Gilt metal with enamel tricolour.
drawing / The Birth of the Irish Republic
The original drawing, 'The Birth of the Irish Republic', by Walter Paget, 1916. Several of the principal leaders of the Rising, including Thomas Clarke, James Connolly wounded on stretcher, Winifred Carney and the Pearse brothers, are depicted in the blazing General Post Office in the final days of...
photograph / G.P.O. Garrison, 1941
Photograph. The General Post Office Garrison of the 1916 Rising. Commemorative photograph taken in 1941. Presented to an Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey T.D., by Vivian Murray, Chairman of An Post, in the G.P.O on the 75th Anniversary of the 1916 Rising., Easter Sunday 1991. Reproduced from a...
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / de Valera
Service medals of Eamon de Valera. 1916 Rising medal (1941) and War of Independence (1917 to 1921, Black and Tan) medal (1941), with Comrac bar (Active Service). Joined on one bar.
pin badge / Oglaigh na hEireann / IRA
Oglaigh na hEireann / IRA badge, 'IRA' stamped into centre, 'Oglaigh na hEireann' around edge. Around bottom '1916(?) - 1921'. Metal and green and white enamel.
photograph / Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
Postcard photograph of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington 'arrested on Easter Monday, 1916, and shot without trial at Portobello Barracks, April 26th'. Part of the Irish Rebellion 1916 postcard series.
roll of honour / Battle of Ashbourne, Survivors, 1957
Photograph of the Battle of Ashbourne Survivors taken on occasion of unveiling the memorial, The Cross of the Rath, 1957. The names are filled in on paper beneath: another sheet of paper to the right giving a list of participants in the Battle of Ashbourne. All mounted on cardboard. 9" x 7".
stationery / Markievicz Memorial Committee, 1953
Quarto sheet of headed notepaper of Madame Markievicz Memorial Committee with typed note dated 14 July 1953 to 'Majorie' signed 'Mollie'. Majorie was the donor's sister.
publication / Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1991
Ancient Order of Hibernians of America publication. 86th Biennial Convention of the Massachusetts Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies A.O.H., 27th April 1991. On the 75th Commemoration of the 1916 Rising. With an image of Patrick Pearse and the 1916 Proclamation.
photograph / 1916 Roll of Honour, 1936
Photograph of de Valera accepting the Roll of Honour, 1936.
photograph / 1916 Roll of Honour, 1936
Photograph of the Parade of the 1916 Men before the presentation of the Roll of Honour, 1936. Commandant O'Connor is third to the left in first rank.
postcard photograph / Interior of the Coliseum Theatre, Dublin, after the bombardment, 1916
Postcard photograph, black and white, interior of the Coliseum Theatre, Henry Street, Dublin, after the bombardment. Published by Coleman's of Dublin. One of a collection of postcards relating to the 1916 Rising, leaders, aftermath, Kilmainham Jail and the executions. Produced in Ireland.