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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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photograph / Abbey Theatre Company
Group photograph of female members of the Abbey Theatre Company.
jewellery / Inghinidhe na hÉireann, Maud Gonne MacBride
Brass brooch of Inghinidhe na hÉireann. Tara style. Of Maud Gonne MacBride. c. 1900 to 1914. Inscribed 'Inghinidhe na hÉireann' along top bar.
jacket / Helena Mary Hoyne, Cumann na mBan
Cumann na mBan uniform. Jacket, skirt and Sam Browne belt worn by Miss H.M. Hoyne (Helena Mary Hoyne, or Nellie Hoyne) Hoyne, of 69 South Circular Road, Portobello, Dublin, later in U.S.A. Nellie was imprisoned in Kilmainham Jail after the Rising. Belt later than 1916. Add to this green collar...
photograph / Annie Higgins
Mounted photograph of Miss Annie Higgins of Cumann na mBan. Served in General Post Office in the 1916 Rising, and took Patrick Pearse's last message to the North of Ireland.
badge / Florence Lea / On War Service
'On War Service' badge, brass, no. 316156 (on rear), triangular, as worn by Florence Lea, worker from 14th March 1917 to 20th December 1918 in the Dublin Dockyard (War Munitions) Co., Ltd.
postcard / Florence Lea, 1918
Photograph of Florence Lea wearing her uniform of the Dublin Dockyard (War Munitions) Co., Ltd., whilst working there from 14th March 1917 to 20th December 1918.
subscription card / Rifle Fund, 1914-16
Cumann na mBan. Printed card for the entry of names of subscribe to fund to buy rifles, and of amounts subscribed. Collector's name, Miss Ethel Russell, handwritten. One entry - J.W. Russell, for 1 shilling, not dated. Written in ink on back are the names of the Honouurable Secretaries - Maire...prisoner list / female prisoners, 1916
List of female prisoners, 1916, on Government notepaper, including names, ages and other biographical details. Included are Josephine Plunkett, 58, 26 Upr Fitzgibbon Street; Kathleen Lynn, 42, 9 Belgrave Road; Winifred Carney, 28, 43 Belvidere Pl. Typist National Health...
War of Independence Service Medal, Active / Brigid Breen, Cumann na mBan
War of Independence Medal with Active service bar, ribbon and lapel ribbon cutting, in presentation box including covering notices. Accompanying card reads 'With the Compliments of the President of Ireland'. Awarded to donor, Mrs Brigid Breen, Central Branch, Cumann na mBan.
apron / Red Cross, G.P.O., 1916
Top of a Red Cross apron worn in the General Post Office by nurse Eva Burke of the Cumann na mBan, 1916. Areas stained with blood, especially along the bottom of the apron.
kit / Laura Daly, 1916
First Aid outfit given by Commandant Edward Daly to his sister Laura Daly on the morning of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol. Cloth bag, c. 5 x 3.25 inches, printed black on outside "First Field Dressing"...etc. Contents - gauze and wool pad. Printed decorations. Date Feb. 1912 printed and...
photograph / Margaret Skinnider, I.C.A.
Miss Margaret Skinnider, Irish Citizen Army, portrait photograph of. Skinnider served in the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, and was wounded there.
writing case / Ned Daly
Commandant Ned Daly's writing case. A writing case given to Mrs L. O'Gorman of Cumann na mBan, by Commandant Ned Daly when he put her in charge of the Father Matthew Hall First Aid Station Easter Week 1916. The case is said to be stained with the blood of Volunteers Seán Hurley and Seán Howard who...
tunic / Clann na nGael Girls Scouts
Tunic of uniform worn by lender, Mrs Mary Chadwick, as Captain, Clann na nGael Girls Scouts in the General Post Office and Jacobs' Factory Easter Week, 1916. Letters I.R.A. added c.1917. Buttons were sent from Belfast to lender from unknown source before Easter Week.
dictionary / concealed pistol
Automatic pistol, concealed in a book, possibly one which had been the property of Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde (of the Irish Parliamentry Party) and left in the Gresham Hotel whence it came into the possession of donor's father, who worked in the hotel at the time. The book an 1828 edition of Noel...
truce anniversary medal / Brigid Breen, Cumann na mBan
War of Independence 50th Anniversary Veteran's Medal, or Truce Anniversary Medal, which was awarded to donor Mrs Brigid Breen of the Cumann na mBan during the 50th anniversary in 1971. With ribbon and two lapel ribbon cuttings, in presentation box with covering notice. Accompanying card reads 'Le...
armband / Cumann na mBan, G.P.O, 1916
Red Cross armlet worn in G.P.O., 1916, by Miss T. Simpson, a member of Fairview Cumann na mBan.
photograph / Mountjoy, Hunger Strike, 1920
(Cashman 49) Hunger Strike, 1920. Photograph of Republican sympathisers, including Madame Despard, outside Mountjoy Jail during the hunger strike of 1920.
duty roster / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Writing table which was used as a notice board by Republican Forces occupying The Royal College of Surgeons, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin during The Rising 1916. Consisting of a sheet of porcelain, white, framed in wood, 11.5" x 9" overall. It appears to have been the property of the College and was...