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.
automatic pistol / Countess Markievicz, 1916
Countess Markievicz's Mauser automatic pistol. With detachable carbine stock which acts as a holster or case. Calibre .30. 5'' rifled barrel. Rear-sight 50 - 1,000 metres. Barrel marked with manufacturer's marks as above. Serial number 162742. With a contemporary note, written by Major Harry de...
photograph / Irish Volunteers, Enniscorthy, 1916
Photograph, The surrender of the Irish Volunteers at Enniscorthy in 1916. Shows double column of Irish Volunteers being escorted by British soldiers from their headquarters at the Athenaeum Club, passing through a watching crowd in Castle Street in Enniscorthy. Photograph measures 8 by 5.4 inches.
letter / General Maxwell, 2 May 1916
Letter from Patrick Pearse to General Maxwell, General Commanding the British Forces in Ireland, from Kilmainham Gaol, dated 2 May 1916. Requesting that his statements regarding his financial affairs and unpublished poems, along with his personal possessions, are passed to his mother or sister.
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...
hat / James Connolly, 1916
A bullet-pierced hat stated to have fallen from James Connolly's head when he was being carried on a stretcher to the Dublin Castle Hospital. It was picked up by one of the ambulance men who were carrying him. Connolly had a corresponding gash in the side of his head. Brown felt material with a...
photograph / Sinn Revolt Arms and Equipment, 1916
Postcard photograph of Irish Volunteer equipment captured after the 1916 Rebellion. Equipment includes four water bottles, two bayonets and one rifle barrell. Added are facsimile images of two stamps. Titled Sinn Revolt Arms and Equipment
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.
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.
sword frog / Marrowbone Lane, 1916
Bayonet in scabbard with belt and frog, which belonged to a member of Con Colbert's company, and was left behind at Marrowbone Lane after the surrender, 1916 Rising. French regulation pattern, 1880; metal scabbard.
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. This and the four items following are said by Professor W.N. Rae to have been left behind in the Royal College of Surgeons on the surrender. Long flat blade, swelling to centre, but with no midrib, with bridle-cutting attachment, hooked, projecting 4.52 and edged...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. Found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. Poker shaped blade, quadilateral in section, sharply pointed, altering shape to cylindrical where it joins shaft; held to shaft by cylindrical collar. The pike-head proper is itself socketted, but...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike, found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. A second pike of the same type as EW.1200 - Poker shaped blade, quadilateral in section, sharply pointed, altering shape to cylindrical where it joins shaft; held to shaft by cylindrical collar. The pike-head proper is itself...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. Found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. Long, flat blade, 12.75" long, 1.5" broad at the butt tapering to blunt point. Attached to shaft (4'1.5" long by 1.2" diam.) by a tang. The attachment strengthened by a brass cylindrical collar,...
pole-arm / Royal College of Surgeons, 1916
Pike used by a Volunteer, pre 1916. Found at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, after the surrender. A second pike of same type and dimensions as EW.1202 -Long, flat blade, 12.75" long, 1.5" broad at the butt tapering to blunt point. Attached to shaft (4'1.5" long by 1.2" diam.) by a tang. The...
service revolver / de Courcy Wheeler, 1916
Smith & Wesson service revolver owned by Major de Courcy Wheeler, the British Army Officer who accepted the surrender of Commandant Mallin and Countess Markievicz at the Royal College of Surgeons, 29th April, 1916. With a contemporary manuscript note signed H.E. de C. Wheeler 'Smith & Wesson...
ammunition / Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1916
One hundred and twenty one rounds of pistol and revolver ammunition for the weapons surrendered to the British military at the end of Easter week, 1916. Ammunition for Patrick Pearse's Browning Fabrique Nationale automatic pistol, Countess Markievicz's Browning Fabrique Nationale automatic pistol,...
photograph / Enniscorthy prisoners, Kilmainham, 1916
(Cashman 14) 1916 Rising. Photograph of two Enniscorthy prisoners being brought to Kilmainham, after the surrender, Easter 1916.
hat / Patrick Pearse, Irish Volunteer
Padraig Pearse's Irish Volunteer hat. Dull green felt hat, bound with silk pugree of almost the same shade. Brim turned up on one side and secured to crown by stud, slouch fashion. Brown leather band and strap inside. No badge or other users mark. Said to have belonged to Padraig Mac Piarais, and...
photograph / Captain Harry de Courcy Wheeler, 1916
Photograph. Major (then captain) Harry de Courcy Wheeler standing beside the ambulance in which Countess Markievicz was taken to the coutmartial, and carrying the walking stick which had been given him by Commandant Michael Mallin. The photograph was taken after he had given evidence at the...