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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.
tunic belt / Rose MacNamara, Cumann na mBan, 1916
Belt for Cumann na mBan tunic EW.990a. Tunic of Cumann na mBan uniform worn by Miss Rose MacNamara in Marrowbone Lane Distillery during Easter Week, 1916, and in Kilmainham Jail after the surrender.
wrist watch / Markievicz, RCSI, 1916
A wristlet watch used by Countess Markievicz to time all the despatches sent from the Royal College of Surgeons during Easter Week 1916, by Commandant Michael Mallin and Major Constance Marckievicz.
flag / Boland's Mills, 1916
Portions of Boland's Mill Garrison flag, used at Boland's Mills in 1916. In two sections. Green field with a gold harp. BMH Witness Statement accounts state that the flag was flown from the turret of the distillery building as a decoy, drawing fire from the British forces away from the garrison...
diary / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Diary of Easter Week, 1916, kept by Mr. D.H. Oliver who was manager of the Metropole Hotel at the beginning of the Rising. 5 page jotter, written in pencil.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from the Manager of the Metropole Hotel (D.H. Oliver), to the Officer Commanding, GPO., Dublin on 25 April 1916 referring to sniping, arms and requesting information re depature of guests for England. Typescript on hotel headed notepaper.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from Manager of the Metropole Hotel (D.H. Oliver) to the Officer Commanding, GPO., Dublin, on 25 April 1916. Requesting passes for a list of named guests. Typescript.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from James Connolly to the Manager of the Metropole Hotel, D.H. Oliver, dated 25 April 1916. With a suggested route for guests leaving and offering to supply them with a written pass. Typescript with holograph signature.
letter / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Letter from James Connolly to Manager of Metropole Hotel (D.H. Oliver) on 25 April 1916 reading 'If you send us in typed applications for passes, giving the name and destination of each person we will sign them for you' and bearing holograph signature.
pass / Metropole, D.H. Oliver, 1916
Pass signed by James Connolly as Commandant General of the Irish Republican Army on 25 April 1916, permitting D. H. Oliver (hotel manager) to leave the occupied Metropole Hotel en route for London.
receipt / Hotel Metropole, 1916
Request signed by Jospeh Mary Plunkett (Plunkett Comt.) for luggage ex room 30 in Hotel Metropole - receipt signed for by Joseph Daly - Easter Week 1916.
receipt / Hotel Metropole, 1916
Receipt signed by Liam Ua Teannáim (Liam Tannam) 24 April 1916 for food-stuffs 'on behalf of the Irish Republic' from Hotel Metropole.
flag / Boland's Mill Garrison, 1916
A fragment of flag which flew over Boland's Mills during Easter Week. the flag was originally a green field with a gold harp. Consisting of a strip of green woollen cloth. The Boland's Mills flag was flown from the turret of the distillery in the complex of buildings to distract attention from the...
uniform / Rose MacNamara, Marrowbone Lane, 1916
Tunic of the Cumann na mBan uniform worn by Rose MacNamara in Marrowbone Lane Distillery during Easter Week, 1916, and in Kilmainham Jail after the surrender.
uniform / Sean McGlynn, Irish Volunteer, 1916
Irish Volunteer tunic, 1916. The tunic was worn by Sean McGlynn at position - South Dublin Union, Mount Brown. The position was occupied by about 52 Volunteers and was held from Easter Monday until the following Sunday. The leaders in the position were Eamon Ceannt and Cathal Brugha. There were...
uniform / Fianna Éireann, 1916
Fianna Éireann tunic. A green shirt of the Irishtown Fianna Scouts, worn in the Four Courts in 1916 by John Kelly of Irishtown, Dublin. In the pocket of this was an manuscript note re. assembly.
mobilisation order / John Kelly, Fianna Eireann, 1916
Note, undated, in pencil, reading 'Be down at half past three in the club room (uniform on) We are going....' [section of paper missing]. Possibly a mobilisation order. Found in the pocket of a Fianna Eireann tunic of Irishtown Fianna Scouts, worn in 1916 by John Kelly of Irishtown, Dublin.
holster / Fianna Éireann, John Kelly, 1916
Leather holster for revolver, of John Kelly of Fianna Éireann. Irishtown Fianna Scouts. Used at the Four Courts during Easter Week, 1916.
envelope / 'Censored', G.P.O., 1916
One of five envelopes (which had passed through G.P.O. 1916 and bear Censorship - British? - tags) addressed to Messrs. Watkins, Jameson Pim & Co., Ltd., Ardee Street Brewery, Dublin, dated (postmarks) April 25, 1916 (? etc.) Came in while Volunteers in occupation and left there on the surrender....
envelope / 'Censored', G.P.O., 1916
One of five envelopes (which had passed through G.P.O. 1916 and bear Censorship - British? - tags) addressed to Messrs. Watkins, Jameson Pim & Co., Ltd., Ardee Street Brewery, Dublin, dated (postmarks) April 25, 1916 (? etc.) Came in while Volunteers in occupation and left there on the surrender....