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.
political cartoon / There's Something Rotten in the State of Ireland, 1882
Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 9 Septemer 1882. Titled 'There's Something Rotten in the State of Ireland'. Depicting John Bull, merchant classes of Ireland, and Royal Irish Constabulary.
political cartoon / A Fair Bargain, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 17 November 1883. Titled 'A Fair Bargain'. Depicting John Bull, Fruitier to the Aristocracy. Irish Party and English Radical party.
political cartoon / Putting a Stop to their Gallop, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 28 July 1883. Titled 'Putting a Stop to their Gallop'. Depicting a confrontation between the British Prime Minister and Timothy Healy. References police violence in Wexford.
political cartoon / James O'Reilly, 1881
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 29 October 1881. Portrait of James O'Reilly, M.P.
political cartoon / A Lame Excuse, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 18 August 1883. Titled 'A Lame Excuse'. Depicting a crowd holding banners 'Parnell and Home Rule', being stopped from passing through a train station gate by the Directors of the D.W.W. Railway Company.
political cartoon / The Hand Writing on the Wall, 1884
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 5 January 1884. Titled 'The Hand Writing on the Wall'. Depicting the figure of Parnell writing 'The present government in Ireland is the meanest and most incompetant that ever attempted to govern the Irish people. And it must disgracefully fail...
newspaper article / Mr Parnell and the Fire Escape
Newspaper article, titled 'Mr Parnell and the Fire Escape' Reprinted from 'London' Edited by Ithuriel, 22 November 1890.
political cartoon / The Key Out of the Difficulty, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 25 August 1883. Titled 'The Key Out of the Difficulty'. Depicting Joe Chamberlain offering the female representation of Erin the key of self-government.
political cartoon / The Girl He Left Behind Him; or The Chased Vice-Roy, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 1 September 1883. Titled 'The Girl He Left Behind Him; or The Chased Vice-Roy'.
badge / Home Rule for Ireland
Home Rule for Ireland badge, with a gold coloured metal harp surmounted by a shamrock, and a green textile ribbon backing.
book / Richard Croker
Illuminated address, book, to Richard Croker. Resolution conferring the Freedom of the City of Dublin on Mr Richard Croker, July 1907. Illuminated by Mary Fitzpatrick of 192 Clonliffe Road, Dublin. Leather bound with gold lettering.
play script / Henry Harrison
Collection of letters and photographs relating to Captain Henry Harrison. Collection of letters, two photographs of the Royal Irish Regiment dinner in 1947, and a copy of a play script entitled 'The Real Parnell; the Truth of the Love Story' A tragedy in 3 acts, with biographical notes and...
print / House of Commons, 1874, 1875
Print, key to a painting of the House of Commons, 1874, 1875. Modern production, possibly for exhibition.
ticket / Home Rule Demonstration, 1888
Ticket, Home Rule Demonstration, Leinster Hall, Dublin, Tuesday 2nd February 1888.
book / What Home Rule Means Now, 1886
Pamphlet, ‘What Home Rule Means Now’. Reprinted from The Times. Containing the Home Rule Bill of 1886 and Sections 25 to 28 of the Land Purchase Bill of 1886. Published by the Liberal Union of Ireland, 45 Dame Street, Dublin. January 1893.
book / Views on Home Rule, 1888
Pamphlet, ‘Views on Home Rule’, showing the inadequacy and shortcomings of Mr Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill of 1893, and contrasting it with the measure of independence granted in the Irish Parliament of 1782, commonly called Grattan’s Parliament. By Henry Stone. Published by M.H. Gill & Son, Dublin,...
book / The Continuity of the Irish Revolutionary Movement. 1887
Pamphlet, ‘1848 and 1887. The Continuity of the Irish Revolutionary Movement’ by H. Brougham Leech. Published by William Ridgway, 169 Piccadilly and Hodges Figgis & Co., Grafton Street, Dublin. 1887.
book / Ulster Unionist Convention Report, 1892
Pamphlet, ‘Ulster Unionist Convention Report of the Great Meeting of 12,000 delegates from all the Counties of Ulster and of the Open Air Meeting in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Belfast, 17th June 1892’. Published by the Proprietors of ‘Belfast News-letter’, 55, 57 & 59 Donegall Street, Belfast, also...
book / Reasons for Home Rule, 1886
Pamphlet, ‘Reasons for Home Rule’ by the Reverand Malcolm MacColl. Printed and published by The National Press Agency Ltd, 13 Whitefriars Street, Fleet Street, London. 1886.