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.
 
autograph / Young Irelanders, Richmond, 1849
Page of a book, signed by Young Irelanders Kevin Izod O'Doherty, Patrick O'Donohue, 7 June 1849. Also M. Broland, 4 Prospect Terrace, Glasnevin, Dublin. Signature of Thomas Francis Meagher, Richmond Prison, 6 June 1849 on the reverse.
 
souvenir / Young Irelanders, Richmond Prison, 1848/9
Copy of a Roman Missal, black leather cover with gold embossed lettering and designs. Printed by Richard Coyne, Dublin, 1848, belonging to Timothy Sexton. The inside pages contain the signatures and dedications of twenty one Young Irelander Prisoners in 1848 and 1849, in Richmond Prison. ...