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.
riding lamp / Asgard
The riding lamp of the yacht "Asgard". On Sunday afternoon, July 26, 1914 Erskine Childers and his wife sailed the 20-ton "Asgard" into Howth Harbour where nearby a thousand rifles were landed.
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.
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
Photograph, Howth Gun Running, July 1914. Photograph in black and white, of scene during march from Howth gun-running 1914. Picture shows Fianna boys carrying batons and drawing trek-cart of ammunition, followed by Irish Volunteers carrying rifles. 8.5 by 6.5 inches.
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.
photograph / Howth gun running, 1914
Photograph, Howth gun running, July 1914. Photograph in black and white, of scene during march from Howth after gun-running 1914. Picture shows rifle-carrying Volunteers marching after horse and cart, driven by two Irish Volunteers and presumably a Fianna boy. 8.5 by 6.5 inches.
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 / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth gun running, 1914. Photograph, original, "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Negative, Print, Enlargement. "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of photographs taken by Donor during the voyage of the...photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth gun running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original print. "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Negative, Print, Enlargement. "Asgard" leaving the docks at Hamburg under sail. Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of photographs taken by Donor...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, View off the shore, south of England. Part of British fleet in background; row-boats in foreground. Negative and print. View off the shore, south of England. Part of British fleet in background; row-boats in foreground. From Collection of eighteen...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Showing volunteers marching along pier at Howth. Negative, Print, Enlargement. From deck of yacht. Showing volunteers marching along pier at Howth. From Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Figures on deck of yacht in foreground. Negative and print. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Figures on deck of yacht in foreground. From Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints of sixteen of them, of...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Negative, Print, Enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Members of Fianna Éireann on pier stretching out hands for rifles from yacht. Collection of eighteen negatives, and prints...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Negative, Print, Enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Members of Fianna Éireann on pier stretching out hands for rifles from yacht. Collection of eighteen...