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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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resource / National Bank, Enniscorthy

National Bank, Enniscorthy, 1835. Article re original deed of settlement presented to Enniscorthy Castle, Echo, 4.5.1979.

 

scabbard / Enniscorthy, 1916

Bayonet, used at Enniscorthy, 1916. British Army long Lee Enfield type, beginning of the 20th century.

 

cup / Enniscorthy, 1916

A ladle used in bullet making, Enniscorthy, 1916. Distorted metal cup, or container attached to metal rod, used to pour molten metal or lead into moulds to manufacture ammunition.

 

programme / 1798 Commemoration, 1938

Booklet, ‘Historical Exhibition of ’98 Relics in The Athenaeum, Enniscorthy, June 1938’. Published by The Echo, Enniscorthy. Price 3p.

 

cap badge / Vinegar Hill, 1798

Cap badge, with bullet hole, worn at the Battle of Vinegar Hill, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, during the 1798 Rebellion. Green textile, with metal emroidery,in the shape of an Irish harp (top), with tassles attached to the bottom section. With a letter from Mr Arthur Ryan to Lady Esmonde, dated...

 

postcard photograph / Enniscorthy Leaders

Postcard photograph, black and white. Irish Rebellion, May 1916 Series. Enniscorthy Leaders, Captain James Rafter, John Etchingham, Captain Brennan. Composite image, three photographs placed in shamrock leaves. Published and Printed by the Powell Press, 22 Parliament Street, Dublin. One of a...

 

photograph / Enniscorthy prisoners, Kilmainham, 1916

(Cashman 14) 1916 Rising. Photograph of two Enniscorthy prisoners being brought to Kilmainham, after the surrender, Easter 1916.