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cap badge / Irish Volunteers, Jacob's, 1916
An Irish Volunteer cap badge worn by a Volunteer in Jacob's Easter Week 1916.
document / Jacob’s Biscuit Factory, 1916
Statement, typed, two pages, of Mr Patrick Cushen recounting his experiences as an employee in Jacob’s Biscuit Factory in the first days after the 1916 Rising.
water bottle / Jacob's Factory Garrison, 1916
Metal water bottle, with green felt covering. Part of the equipment used by a member of the Jacob's Factory Garrison, 1916 Rising, and captured by the British Forces after the surrender.
water bottle / Jacob's Factory Garrison, 1916
Extemporised water bottle, made from a lemonade bottle, covered leather. Part of the equipment used by a member of the Jacob's Factory Garrison, 1916, and captured by the British after the surrender.
note / Jacobs Factory, 1916
Note written by a member of the garrison on the back of a requisition form (Jacob's Factory). 'Apologies for rude disturbance. Plea of necessity. A Republican till death. I leave you my glasses as my bit of compensation. 30/4/1916'. This note was written by Mr. Seamus Hughes (Radio Éireann) while...
photograph / Jacobs Biscuit Factory, 1916
Framed photograph of the inscription written by the Volunteers on the reverse of a Jacob's Biscuit Factory No Smoking Sign (in collection, numbered HE:EW.992.7).
uniform / Irish Volunteer, Jacob's Biscuit Factory, 1916
Irish Volunteer tunic, 1914. Coat, greyish green cloth. Buttoned down the front with five large brass buttons each bearing the Brian Boru harp. Four pockets, the upper two patch pockets with flap buttoned over with small brass buttons similar to the large buttons down the front. Shoulder straps....
relic / Michael O'Hanrahan
Button taken from uniform of Michael O'Hanrahan on night before execution, 3 May 1916, and given by him to his sisters Eily and Cis in his cell at Kilmainham Gaol. Irish Volunteer tunic button, brass, set in brass frame as a relic, for 'Captain Micéal O'Hannracáin, executed 4th May 1916'. Reverse...
chessboard / Jacob's Factory, 1916
Chessboard found in Jacob's Factory after Rising, 1916. Wood, measures 11.4 inches square, brown and cream in colour. Broken down middle. Manuscript note in ink on back re provenance. Reads "30th April 1916" and "J.A.Duff" and "This chessboard was found behind the barricades in Jacob's Factory...
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....
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.
bicycle / Terence Simpson, 1916
Bicycle which was ridden by Terence Simpson from Drumcondra to St. Stephen's Green and thence to Jacob's Factory on Easter Monday, 1916, when joining his unit in the rebellion. It was confiscated on the surrender and returned to him by the British military authorities at King George V Hospital in...
relic / Michael O'Hanrahan, 1916
Button taken from uniform of Michael O'Hanrahan on night before execution, 3 May 1916, and given by him to his sisters Eily and Cis in his cell at Kilmainham Gaol. Irish Volunteer tunic button, green leather, set in brass frame as a relic, for Captain Micéal O'Hannracáin, executed 4th May 1916....
billy can / Jacob's Factory, 1916
Billy can, captured by British troops in Jacob's Factory, 1916.