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.
Showing 14 results
Showing results from Co. Clare
Queen's colour / Clare Militia, 1855
Queen's colour, flag. Clare Militia. Silk. The Union Flag of Great Britain and Ireland. A riband of yellow silk bears the title 'Clare Militia' in black lettering, set horizontally across St George's Cross. A Royal Crown, worked in silk, sits above the riband. Similar design on both sides. Red and...
watercolour / Sir Michael O'Lochlen
Sir Michael O'Lochlen, Lord Lieutenant for Co. Clare. Framed watercolour, full length portrait of O'Lochlen in uniform.
plaque / An Clar / de Valera, 1947
Plaque, Gold on wood. Presented to Eamon de Valera, 1947. 'An Clar'.resource / Whiteboys in Clare
Whiteboys in Clare. Newspaper cutting of extract concerning arrest of 5 whiteboys by Mr Weldon at Cratloe. Clare Champion 1.2.1974.
commemorative plate / Daniel O'Connell / Repeal
Creamware plate, English, about 1828. Creamware plate moulded with leafed flowers around the rim, painted in red, yellow, green, purple, orange. Red painted rim. Transfer printed verse in well with design around of rose, shamrock and thistle, painted in red, green and purple. The verse commemorates...
photograph / I.R.A. Camp, 1921
I.R.A. roadside camp, between Kinvara and the Burren. Taken on the Sunday after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Truce, War of Independence, July, 1921. Left to right; Bertie Quinn, Mikie Hynes, Seamus Davanport, Joe Kilkelly, Tommie Reidy, Tommie Quinn, Padraic Fahy. Original photograph by Tomas O...
booklet / P.T. Daly's Libel Action
Political pamphlet, "P.T. Daly's Libel Action". A report of the legal proceedings against 'The Voice of Labour' and the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, and appendix of documents including a facsimile of the Sligo letter of nomination, a facsimile of the faked Sligo books, reports on and...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. House and family of Mr Solomon Frost, Rossmanagher, Six Mile Bridge, Co. Clare, upon whose holding the wooden...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. Ruined home of Mr Matthias McGrath, Moyasta, Co. Clare. This house was thus demolished by the battering ram,...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. John P. Frost and family of twelve young children, outside the wooden hut erected for their shelter on the...
photograph / Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland
Photograph, mounted on card. Titled Landlords’ War against the Homesteads of Ireland. Dedicated (without permission) to the Clare Landlords’ Defence Association. Photograph by Henry O’Shea. Homestead of John P. Frost, wife and twelve young children, of Ranosmanagher, Six-Mile-Bridge, Co. Clare,...
commemorative jug / Daniel O'Connell, 1828
Jug, commemorating Daniel O'Connell's election as Clare M.P. in the By-Election of 1828. Earthenware mug: buff coloured pottery decorated in red. On one side a bust of Daniel O'Connell between DANL O CONNELL, Esq., M.P. FOR THE COUNTY OF CLARE, on the other side masonic emblems. Staffordshire...
flag / Dillon Regiment
Flag of the Dillon Regiment, an Irish Regiment in the 18th century French Army, during the Wars of the Austrian Succession 1740 to 1748. The Dillon Regiment was connected to Co.Clare, Ireland. Fragments remain of the flag, red/wine in colour, mounted on backing cloth. Top-left corner is a square...