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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.


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freedom box / City of Wexford / de Valera, 1971

Case or holder for scroll, brass, set onto a wooden base. Presenting the Freedom of the City of Wexford on to President Eamon de Valera, 1971.

 

freedom box / City of Wexford / O Ceallaigh, 1946

Case or holder for scroll, brass, set onto a wooden base. Presenting the Freedom of the City of Wexford on to President Sean T. O Ceallaigh, 1946. Maker's label on underside reads Louis Kerr, Watchmaker and Jeweller, Wexford and Enniscorthy.

 

freedom certificate / Freedom of Wexford, de Valera, 1971

Certificate scroll of the Freedom of Wexford, presented to Eamon de Valera, 1971. In Irish, illuminated.

 

guidon / Healthfield Cavalry

Guidon of the Healthfield Cavalry, Wexford. Of dark grey-blue silk. In the centre is a harp in gold embroidery, within a garter of yellow silk, inscribed HEALTHFIELD CAVALRY in gold embroidery, all within a shamrock wreath in yellow on brown silk. A crown in gold embroidery and silk above,...

 

document / City of Wexford, 1829

Paper, printed, three pages, Marquis of Ely, Admiral Henry Evans and the City of Wexford, 1829. Part of a collection of four documents. 1) Paper, printed, three pages, Marquis of Ely, Admiral Henry Evans and the City of Wexford, 1829; 2) Copy of 'Dublin Gazette, 23/03/1830, printed two and a half...

 

document / City of Wexford, 1830

Notice, printed, Municipal Assembly Wexford, 20 September 1830. Part of a collection of four documents. 1) Paper, printed, three pages, Marquis of Ely, Admiral Henry Evans and the City of Wexford, 1829; 2) Copy of 'Dublin Gazette, 23/03/1830, printed two and a half pages; 3) Copy of 'Dublin...

 

photograph / Edward Walsh, 1890

Edward Walsh, c.1890. Photograph (glass mounted and fragmented) of, wearing the Chain of Office as Mayor of Wexford.

 

portrait / John Henry Colclough

Print, silhouette of John Henry Colclough. HH:1937.156.6.1-22. Framed Photographic Prints and Coloured Engravings. HH:1937.156.6.6 - John Henry Colclough.

 

engraving / Father Currin

Print, Father Currin. HH:1937.156.6.1-22. Framed Photographic Prints and Coloured Engravings. HH:1937.156.6.9 - Father Currin.

 

moquette / 1798 Wexford Pikeman

Plaster statue, reduced size copy of Oliver Sheppard's bronze 1798 Wexford Pikeman which stands in the Bull Ring in Wexford town. Pike present but not attached due to break in hand.

 

letter / Robert Carew, 1841

Letter, dated July 24th 1841, to Mr Robert Carew at Waterford, signed Chas. (Charles) A. Walker, concerning an election involving a Mr Sutton, Mr Power, Mr Morgan and Mr Hall. HH:1935.148-150. Three election posters. Co. Wexford Election, July 19th 1818; July 13th 1818; and July 18th 1818. Also a...

 

certificate / 1798 Centenary Association

Illuminated certificate of membership of the Wexford 1798 Centenary Association. Made out to Sit Thomas Grattan Esmonde. Framed. HH:1937.156.6.1-22. Framed Photographic Prints and Coloured Engravings. HH:1937.156.6.17 - illuminated certificate of membership of the 1798 Centenary Association. Framed.

 

invitation / 1798 Commemoration, Wexford

Wexford '98 Commemoration Association invitation card to commemoration event on 26th June, Abbey Square, Enniscorthy.

 

lithograph / The Massacre at Wexford Cross September 1649

Coloured lithograph, titled The Massacre at Wexford Cross September 1649. Continues underneath title as follows, "No distinction was made by the ENGLISH between the defenceless inhibitant and the armed soldier; nor could THE SHRIEKS AND PRAYERS OF THREE HUNDRED FEMALES, who had gathered round the...