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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.
gun licence / Christopher Murtagh, 1848
Gun licence, 1848, 'Licence to have Arms in a Dwelling house'. Printed form with details added in handwriting, giving permission to Mr. Christopher Murtagh of Grange, Skerries, Co. Dublin, on 29 July 1848 to have ‘Two single guns’ in his dwelling house. No. 279. Signed by Henry Walker Thompson,...
lithograph / Patrick O' Donohue
Patrick O' Donohue. Mounted, framed and glazed, JH Lynch engraving of Glukman daguerrotype published by Glukman, bearing in facsimile "Patrick O'Donohue/Dock of Clonmel Court House/23rd October 1848" and inscribed "Presented to Timothy Sexton Esq/As a last token of sympathy for/all his devoted...
autograph / Young Irelanders, 1848
Piece of paper with the signatures of William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew MacManus and Patrick O'Donoghue, 1848.
reproduction / Young Ireland, 1848
Notice, printed and circulated by the King's representative in Ireland, 26/7/1848. Declaring Confederate Clubs illegal. Photocopy made in the National Library.
reproduction / Young Ireland, 1848
Notice, printed and circulated by the King's representative in Ireland, 29/4/1848. Against the election of a National Council of three hundred and against the constitution of a National Guard. Photocopy made in the National Library.
photocopy / William Smith O'Brien reward, 1848
Notice, printed and circulated by the King's representative in Ireland, 28 July 1848. Offering a reward of £500 for apprehension of William Smith O'Brien. Photocopy made in the National Library.
reproduction / Young Ireland, 1848
Notice, printed and circulated by the King's representative in Ireland, 28/7/1848. Offering a reward of £300 for apprehension of Thomas Francis Meagher, John Blake Dillon, and Michael Doheny. Photocopy made in the National Library.
illustration / Young Irelander flags
Drawing or illustration of the Young Irelander flags, crossed. Colour. The birth of the tricolour as the National Flag. Left; the tricolour of orange, white and green presented by Thomas Francis Meagher to the Irish people on 15 April 1848. The orange symbolised the Protestants, the green...
reproduction / Proclamation by the Council of the Irish Confederation, 3 March 1848
Photostatic reproduction of a printed document - Proclamation by the Council of the Irish Confederation, signed by William Smith O'Brien, Chairman. Dated at the Council Rooms of the Irish Confederation, 9 D'Olier Street, Dublin, 3 March, 1848.
map / Ireland / Young Irelanders
Map of Ireland, with pencil notes marking the locations relelvant to the Young Irelanders and the rebellion of 1848.
illustration / Widow McCormack's House
Print or illustration, depicting a house, titled Widow McCormack's House, on Boulagh Common, near Ballingarry. Co. Tipperary. Young Ireland Rebellion, 1848.
reproduction / Arrest of Smith O'Brien at the Railway Station in Thurles
Print, reproduced from the Illustrated London News, titled 'Arrest of Smith O'Brien at the Railway Station in Thurles'. One of a collection of six such prints found without a register number. Possibly part of HH1940.82k. Unclear from register entry.
reproduction / The Irish State Trials - Mr S. O'Brien conveyed back to prison after the sentence
Print, reproduced from the Illustrated London News, titled ' The Irish State Trials - Mr S. O'Brien conveyed back to prison after the sentence'. One of a collection of six such prints found without a register number. Possibly part of HH1940.82k. Unclear from register entry.
map / Ireland / Young Irelanders
Map of Ireland, handmade, with applique cut-outs illustrating the Young Ireland Rebellion, 1848, and associated persons. Probably an old museum display graphic.
plaque / John Brennan, Young Irelander, 1848
Commemoration or presentation plaque, silver plaque, engraved. Presented to John Brennan, a Young Irelander imprisoned in 1848. Reads 'As a token of respect from a brother martyr, to John Brennan, as being one of the first victims to English tyranny incarcerated for 12 months July 4th'. ...
flag / John Mitchell, 1848
A flag sent by John Mitchel to Mrs O'Brien of Rathgormack, Carrick-on-Suir, in 1848. It is a plain piece of green poplin cloth measuring 4 foot and 9 inches by 4 foot and 2 inches. It is possible that it was intended that a harp should be embroidered onto it. Mrs O'Brien was the aunt of Dr...
illustration / Young Irelanders, 1848
Commemorative print, black and white, with illustrations of the Young Ireland leaders of the 1848 Rebellion - Thomas Davis, John Mitchel, William Smith O'Brien, John Dillon, Charles Gavan Duffy, Thomas Francis Meagher. With their birth and death dates. Also illustrated is a scene, dated 1847, of...
handbill / Young Ireland Rebellion, 1848
Notice issued by the Council of the Irish Confederation, to the people of Dublin. Dated May 20 1848. Calling on the citizens of Dublin to resist efforts being made to incite them to insurrection (the Young Ireland Rebellion). Signed by the Secretary Thomas Mathew Halpin, issued from the Council...
reproduction / Young Ireland Rebellion, 1848
Reproduction of - Notice issued by the Council of the Irish Confederation, to the people of Dublin. Dated May 20 1848. Calling on the citizens of Dublin to resist efforts being made to incite them to insurrection (the Young Ireland Rebellion). Signed by the Secretary Thomas Mathew Halpin, issued...