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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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lottery ticket / Dublin, 1789

Lottery ticket, Irish Lottery for the year 1789. Numbered AmA09. Licenced Lottery Office at 59 Dame Street, Dublin. One of a collection of 13 Lottery tickets, English and Irish, 1793-1815.

 

lottery ticket / Dublin, 1787

Irish lottery ticket, 1787. Drawing commences 12 November. One guinea. Signed H. Wilson. Numbered 5mA12.

 

lottery ticket / Dublin, 1795

Irish Lottery ticket, 1795. Issued by the Government Lottery Office, 14 Capel Street, Dublin. Numbered 7033.

 

lottery ticket / Dublin, 1775

Irish lottery ticket, 1775. Numbered 3m529 and 3m530. Scheme publiched by the Merchants of the City of Dublin to build a new Exchange.

 

printing plate / Irish Sweepstakes

Portion of printing press possibly connected with the Irish Sweepstakes. Rusted circular object (d.7.3cm). Openwork which had 12 stokes (2 now missing) radiating from a centre (c.4cm d.) to the circumference. Found in the National Library with no note as to its provenance wrapped in a piece of...

 

sweepstake ticket / Republican, 1935

Republican Sweep Ticket, 1935. No. 13651 on Cambridgeshire for Republican Prisoners' Dependents.