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.
printing type / Proclamation, 1916
Three pieces of printing type, comprising capital F and two lower case letters e. Type from the font used in the printing of the 1916 Proclamation. Found among the papers of William O'Brien.
bullet / Howth Mauser, c. 1916
Five rounds of 11 mm ammunition for one 11 mm Mauser rifle No. 1076. The "Howth Rifle". Live.
rifle / Irish Citizen Army, 1916
One Italian magazine bolt action rifle of the pattern used by the Citizen Army in 1916. Found by the British in a dump. On butt "ARTICA FABA D'ARMI TERNI-1888-RIPARAZIONE", Italian arms and serial no. KB 772. KB 772 on breech end of barrel and Terni 1884. Note: This is a Vetterli rifle and should...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Photograph - Howth Gun Running. Scene during march from Howth after the gun-running of 26 July 1914. Picture shows section of group, including a marching cyclist, carrying rifles.
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Photograph, Howth Gun Running. Scene during march from Howth after gun-running, 26 July 1914. Picture shows view of marching cyclists, in uniform of Volunteers and in mufti, with rifles and batons attached to bicycles.
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Photograph, Howth Gun Running. Scene during march from Howth after gun-running, 26 July 1914. Picture shows group of Volunteers in mufti, wearing bandoliers, and carrying rifles. Eamon de Valera, is seen third from the extreme right of picture, wearing soft hat, carrying a rifle on his left...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Photograph, Howth Gun Running. Scene during the march from Howth after the gun-running, 26 July 1914. Picture shows group of Volunteers in mufti, with one or two in uniform, carrying rifles.
rifle / Phibsborough, 1916
Rifle, Italian Vettereli type, dug up from a ditch at Phibsborough, Dublin. Italian Vetterelis were landed at Larne by the Ulster Volunteers in 1914. "1916" cut into the the wood of the butt. Very rusted and degraded from exposure to moisture in ditch. this was likely abandoned by the Volunteers...
rifle / Aud, 1916
Mosin Rifle, first adopted by the Russians in 1896. The donor's father, Mr. Hood, was the Commander of HMS Bluebell, stationed at Cobh, when the Aud was intercepted on 21st April 1916. This was part of the consignment of rifles intended for the 1916 rebellion. Fixed foresight and graduated rear...
rifle / Aud, 1916
Mosin rifle; Russian. Part of the 'Aud' consignment, salvaged from the wreck. Serial No.17640. Silver plaque on rifle butt reads - 'Rifle recovered from German SS Aud, sunk near Queenstown 21.4.1916'.
rifle / The Aud, 1916
Mosin, Russian rifle salvaged from 'The Aud', 1916. Said to have been used as evidence in preliminary trial of 'Casement' in Dublin under Major H.M. Fraser the Provost Marshal in Dublin, 1916, and kept by Major Fraser as a keepsake afterwards. Russian inscription and the no. 194770 stamped on...