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 / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original, view of Howth harbour from the entrance, possibly taken as yacht entered harbour. Negative, Print, Enlargement, view of Howth harbour from the entrance. (Taken as yacht entered harbour?) From Collection of eighteen negatives, and...
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. Figures, probably volunteers, but some local boatmen, on pier above yacht. Figure on deck of yacht in foreground. From...
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. Figures, probably volunteers, but some local boatmen, on pier above yacht. Figure on deck of yacht in...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, original, From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Group of Fianna Eireann with rifles in middle distance on pier. Group of Volunteers with rifles to right. Erskine Childers in foreground. Negative, print, enlargement. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier...
photograph / Howth Gun Running, 1914
Howth Gun Running, 1914. Photograph, enlarged copy of original. From deck of yacht. Alongside pier above yacht. Group of Fianna Eireann with rifles in middle distance on pier. Group of Volunteers with rifles to right. Erskine Childers in foreground. Negative, print, enlargement. From deck of...
Howth rifle / Tom Clarke, Howth
Tom Clarke's Howth Rifle. A "Howth Rifle" inscribed: "Tom Clarke to John Daly. One of the first two pieces landed at Howth Pier Dublin 26th July, 1914". The gun was taken by Tom Clarke from Dublin to Limerick the day following the Howth Gun-running. On arrival at Limerick he marched with it on his...
bullet / Howth Mauser, c. 1916
Five rounds of 11 mm ammunition for one 11 mm Mauser rifle No. 1076. The "Howth Rifle". Live.
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.