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.
card / Jacobs Factory, 1916
Sections of tricolour which flew over Jacobs in 1916. Comprising three fragments of cloth about .5 x .25 inches in dimension, one green, one white and one yellow, pasted on to a piece of brown paper 3.6 x 5.8 inches, in the shape of a flag staff painted in white alongside the cloth fragments....
banner / Irish Republic, GPO, 1916
The Irish Republic flag which flew over the GPO in 1916. Green poplin cloth with the letters IRISH REPUBLIC painted in white and gold (vertical) on both sides. A large segment torn off one side leaving the lettering incomplete. This flag flew from the Princes Street corner of the GPO from Easter...
water bottle / Jacob's Factory, 1916
Enamelled water bottle, covered fawn cloth. Part of the equipment used by a member of the Jacob's Factory Garrison, 1916, and captured by the British after the surrender.
ammunition / Magazine Fort, 1916
Clip of burnt and torn rifle ammunition from the fire at the Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park, Easter 1916. Four round clip, full. Bullets missing, cartridge cases burnt.
flag / Liberty Hall, 1916 Rising
Remains of the flag from Liberty Hall, 1916. Charred remains of green flag with harp applied centrepiece. Taken by Colonel H. Carter, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, from Liberty Hall after the 1916 Rising. The Liberty Hall flag was raised on Easter Sunday by Molly O'Reilly, aged 15.
flag / Four Courts, 1916
Flag flown over The Four Courts, Dublin, during the 1916 Rising. Taken on 30th April 1916. Green field with yellow harp.
ammunition / Ardee Street Brewery, 1916
1916 Rifle ammunition carton, cardboard. Labelled '20 Scharfe Patronen Fúr Mauser-Gewhere. M 71.84'. Left behind by the Irish Volunteers in Ardee Street Brewery on their evacuation, 1916. Ardee Street Brewery, or Watkin's Brewery, was an outpost located in The Liberties area, occupied by Con...
photograph / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
View of part of the interior of the front area of the Royal College of Surgeons, showing the main door, broken windows and bullet marks on the walls, after the Rising, 1916.
photograph / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
View of a door at the end of a passage and beneath a glass roof barricaded from the inside with tables and garden seats in the Royal College of Surgeons after the Rising, 1916.
photograph / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
View of a hallway seen through a doorway (possibly of the library), of a broken door panel, Royal College of Surgeons after the 1916 Rising.
photograph / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Photograph of haul of ammunition, explosives, etc., found in the Royal College of Surgeons on its occupation by British Forces after the Rising. Tin-can bombs, rifle and shotgun ammunition, a haversack, uniform, etc. Left behind by the Irish Citizen Army after the surrender.
souvenir / Metropole Hotel, 1916
Hotel Metropole 1916 Relic. Five sugar bowls, fused together by action of the fire, salvaged from the Hotel Metropole, Dublin, after the burning, Easter 1916. Blackened from fire. A contemporary label has been affixed to one side, reading "Souvenier of Rising 1916. Metropole Hotel".
flag / General Post Office, 1916 Rising
Fragment of woollen textile, originally from the white coloured portion of the tricolour flag that flew over the General Post Office during the 1916 Rising.
billy can / Jacob's Factory, 1916
Billy can, captured by British troops in Jacob's Factory, 1916.
clip (arms equipment) / Magazine Fort, 1916
Burnt rifle ammunition from The Magazine Fort, Phoenix Park. The Fort was partially destroyed by fire as a result of an Irish attack in 1916. A block 6" by 6" by 1.5" composed of cartridges, bullets, clips, melted metal, wood. Received by Edward Mulcahy at the time as a souvenir.