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 Rebellion, 1916
Postcard photograph - Irish Rebellion, May 1916 series. Barricade of motor cars in Sackville Street. Printed by The Daily Sketch for Easons, Dublin.
photograph / Joseph Lawless, 1917
Photograph of Joseph V. Lawless in Irish Volunteer uniform in 1917. Full uniform, slouched hat, puttees and RIC carbine with fixed bayonet. This may be the carbine captured by Lawless from a Meath barracks during the Battle of Ashbourne, 1916, which was hidden and retrieved after Lawless' release...
photograph / Dublin Street Scene, 1916
Dublin Street Scene 1916. 6.5 x 8.5 ins photograph showing crowd of men outside Munster and Leinster Bank and Cable Shoe Co. Ltd., (Sackville Street).
photograph / Dublin Savings Bank, 1916
Photograph of Dublin Savings Bank 1916 'Central News'., 10 x 8 ins., showing crowd outside entrances over which is hung a notice reading 'Will Open/When Law and Order/is Fully Restored'.
newspaper article / Sheehy Skeffington / Bowen Colthurst, 1916
1916 newspaper cutting. Mrs. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and Captain Bowen Colthurst, Daily Sketch (photographs), 8 June 1916.
resource / Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, 1916
An appreciation of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington by Robert Lynd. Xeroxprint of pages from The Ploughshare (London) Vol. 1, No. 5, June 1916 including p.1 (editorial), pp. 141-144 (incl.) being Lynd's article & illustration.
portrait / Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
Francis Sheehy-Skeffington. Original pen and ink drawing - based on photograph supplied by Hanna - signed H, used to illustrate Lynd's article in The Ploughshare, June 1916.
photograph / Countess Markievicz leaving the Court Martial, 1916
Postcard with newspaper print photograph; Sinn Fein Rebellion, Dublin. Rebel Countess (Countess Markievicz) leaves after Court-Martial. Countess Markievicz leaving the court martial, seen here seated with a wardress in the Red Cross Wagon which took her away. Possibly published by Valentine of...
souvenir / Liberty Hall, 1916 Rising
Canvas sheet with painting of a church in oils, taken from Liberty Hall, on its occupation by British forces after Easter Week, 1916.
newspaper / The Irish Citizen, July 1916
Copy (photostat) of 'The Irish Citizen'. Memorial Number, Vol.4, No.38, July, 1916. "The Irish Citizen." was founded by Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and J. H. Cousins, the Irish poet. Edited by Sheehy-Skeffington from 1912 until his death, continued until 1921 when office raided by Black and Tans and...
portrait / Sir Francis Vane
Sir Francis Vane, portrait of, photo. Second in command, Portobello Barracks, who exerted himself to bring Capt. Bowen-Colthurst to justice, but was himself superseded. Given to Mrs. Skeffington for her son, Owen, July, 1916. Signed.
uniform / Irish Volunteers, Liam Mellows, 1916
Liam Mellows' Irish Volunteer tunic, 1916. Given to Pauline Barry by John MacNamara in Autumn 1916 on Mellows' behalf as a token of appreciation for assistance in his escape to the U.S.A. when he and Pauline Barry travelled dressed up as nuns. Green tunic bears the label 'Irish Tweed Company, 53...
photograph / British troops, Stephen's Green, 1916
Full plate photograph of British troops marching along Stephen's Green after Rising.
prison autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
Autograph album kept in Belfast Jail in 1918. With cardboard cover 8" by 6.5".
photograph / Barney Mellows, 1917
Photograph of Barney Mellows after his escape in 1917. Seated on the car's running board with his cousin Rita Whitmore at his left and his aunt Julia and Uncle Bob Whitmore on his right. The photograph was taken at Macoyle, Inch, Co. Wexford.
key / National Aid Association, 1917
A key given by Michael Collins to Leo P. Lawlor in 1917. It was used for the Offices of the National Aid Association. Michael Collins was appointed Secretary of the Association shortly after his release from Frongoch and the knowledge acquired in his new position was of great service to him in...
prison autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
Autograph album from Belfast Jail, 1918 (mostly) and bearing signatures of (and sometimes entries by) Austin Stack, Kevin C. Higgins, Earnan de Blaghd, Gearoid O'Beolain, Leo Bros, Liam Pedlar, Eamonn O'Duiblir and including an illuminated page giving the prison staff structure.
photograph / Irish Republican Deportees, England, September 1917
Postcard photograph of Irish Republican Deportees in England 1917. Group photograph, taken in outdoors setting. Men named as Messrs. Ó Muirthile, Ó Maoilfhinn, McInerny, O'Connor, Manahan, Colivet, Brennan, Leddy. The postcard was sent to Séan T. Ó Ceallaigh by Micheál S. Ua Braonáin from...
photograph / British troops, Shelbourne Hotel, 1916
Full plate photograph of British troops drawing up outside Shelbourne Hotel in 1916.