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.
photograph / Irish Volunteer Training Camp, 1915
Photograph of Irish Volunteer Training Camp, Ticknock, Co. Dublin in August 1915. Showing tents in background with J.J. O'Connell, Hobson, Tadhg Barry, Eimar O'Duffy, (seated) and Eamonn Rooney (standing) in front. Notes of identification on back of print. (4.2 x 6 ins.)
photograph / Irish Volunteers, Limerick, 1914
Photograph, full plate, of a group of Irish Volunteers being drilled at Galbally, Co. Limerick, in 1914 by Commandant Thomas Byrne.
photograph / Howth Gun Running
Howth Gun-Running photographic print taken from a magazine showing the Asgard at Howth pier.
photograph / Howth Gun Running
Howth Gun-Running photographic print taken from a magazine showing the Asgard with sails furled at a pier.
photograph / Howth Gun Running
Howth Gun-Running Print taken from a magazine showing the Asgard with sails furled at a pier in a harbour. EW.4287 is a detail of this.
handbook / Tramp Camps and Standing Camps for Boy Scouts, 1911
Book, 'Tramp Camps and Standing Camps for Boy Scouts' by J. A. Kyle. Published by James Brown & Son, Official Publishers to Boy Scout Headquarters. Baden Powell Boy Scouts handbook, issued in 1911. The inside pages bears a facsimile signature of Liamhan S. Mac Ionnraic, and the stamp of the...
photograph / Howth Gun-Running, 1914
Group surrounding motor car at pier. Photograph taken by a press photographer at the Howth Gun-Running, 1914.
photograph / Irish National Volunteers, c. 1915
Postcard photograph. The National Volunteers, 'Ireland United is all we ask'. With four men marked by numbers, and handwritten note - Howth Gun Running. 1. Tom Byrne, 2. Joe McGuinness, 3. M.J. Judge, 4. The O Rahilly. Handwritten note on the reverse states that the photograph was taken in...
photograph / Irish National Volunteers, c. 1915
Postcard photograph; The National Volunteers, gun running coup at Howth, Co Dublin. Five photographs.
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running Photograph. Photograph in black and white, 8.5 inches by 6.5 inches, of scene during march from Howth after gun-running 1914. Picture shows group of marching cyclists carrying rifles attached to bicycles.
ship compass / Asgard
Ship’s compass, brass. Of the Asgard yacht, used by Erskine in the 1914 Howth gun-running from Germany.
lifebuoy / Asgard
Ship’s life buoy. Red and white, with ‘Asgard’ written in gold lettering. Of the Asgard yacht, used by Erskine in the 1914 Howth gun-running from Germany.
photograph / Irish Volunteers, Coosan Training Camp, 1914
Group photograph, fourteen Irish Volunteers, in uniform, in two rows outside tents at Coosan Training Camp, Summer 1914.
reproduction / Irish Citizen Army, Croydon Park, 1914
Photograph of a company of Irish Citizen Army taken at Croydon Park, 1914. Museum reproduction of the original Keogh Brothers photograph.
photograph / Midland Volunteer Force, Athlone, 1914
Photograph of the Midland Volunteer Force (Irish Volunteers) Inspection, Fair Green, Athlone, 1914. Showing officer party in front of the ranks. Third from the left is Colonel Maurice Moore.
photograph / Midland Volunteer Force, Athlone, 1914
Photograph of the Midland Volunteer Force (Irish Volunteers) Inspection, Fair Green, Athlone, 1914. Showing Colonel Maurice Moore addressing the ranks.
photograph / Irish Volunteers, Coosan Training Camp, 1914
Photograph, eleven Irish Volunteers, in uniform, outside tents at Coosan Training Camp, Summer 1914.
photograph / Irish Volunteers, Coosan Training Camp, 1914
Group photograph, fifteen uniformed Irish Volunteers, in two rows, against a background of a wall, bushes, trees and tents at Coosan Training Camp, Summer 1914.
leaflet / Irish National Volunteer Review, 1915
Great Southern and Western Railway handbill, re Irish National Volunteer Review, 4 April 1915, announcing times of trains returning to the country from Dublin.