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.
book / Kilmainham, 1963
Book, green cover with 'Kilmainham' in gold lettering. Presented to Eamon de Valera on the occasion oh his visit to Kilmainham on 14th May, 1963. With ten signatures on the inside cover.
drawing / Kilmainham Prison
Pen and watercolour drawing of Kilmainham Prison. By Louis Le Brocquy, 1945. Exhibited at the Davis Centenary Art Exhibition, 1946.
altar crucifix / Kilmainham Prison Chapel
Altar crucifix from Kilmainham Prison Chapel.
vest / James Connolly, 1916
Vest belonging to James Connolly, worn during the week of the 1916 Rising. Bloodstained.
letter / Horace / John Sweetman, c.1798
A leather bound volume of Horace, Q Horatii Flacci Opera, Dublinii, E Typographia Academiae, MDCCXLV. With letter signed by John Sweetman, a leading United Irishman, at Kilmainham Gaol, c.1798, on the inside front fly leaves. Formerly the property of John Sweetman.
photocopy / John Sheares / Julia Sheares
Photostatic copy of : Letter written by John Sheares, dated Kilmainham Prison July 10th 1798, addresed to 'my ever dear Julia' and 'a beloved and affectionate Family', mentions his brothers, Robert, Richard and Christopher whom he will shortly join. The trial is stated to be the day after the next....
letter / John Sweetman / Sir Edward Cooke, Kilmainham
Copy of a letter to Sir Edward Cooke, Kilmainham. Written on the fly-leaves of a copy of Horace. It was apparently a copy made for record of the original sent to Sir Edward Cooke, Under-Secretary for Civil Affairs (Civil Department), by John Sweetman, a well known Dubliner in close touch with the...
Address / Kilmainham Memorial, 1962
Illustrated address in Irish, Kilmainham Memorial of the 1916 Rising, 4th March 1962. Eamon de Valera. In a white folder with gold lettering.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.drawing / 1916 Leaders Execution, Kilmainham Jail, 1916
Postcard, one of forty-nine copies, printed reproduction of a drawing showing the execution scene in Kilmainham Jail of the 1916 Leaders.