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.
belt / Captain Robert de Coure, I.C.A., 1916
Belt of an Irish Citizen Army Uniform; Royal College of Surgeons, Easter Week 1916. Worn by Captain Robert de Coure. Dark brown leather with snake clasp, in the Royal Irish Constabulary belt clasp style.
photograph / William Partridge, 1916
Photograph of Councillor William P. Partridge (autographed by his widow) of the Irish Citizen Army, and leading trade unionist. A week previous to Easter Sunday 1916 he was sent to Tralee by James Connolly. His mission was to help in getting the members of the Transport Union to discharge the...
tunic / Captain Robert de Coure, I.C.A., 1916
Irish Citizen Army uniform tunic. Worn in the Royal College of Surgeons,Easter Week 1916, by Captain Robert de Coure. Dark green serge wool fabric with dark green leather buttons - five down the front of the tunic and one on each pocket flap (four), and on shoulder epaulettes (two).
automatic pistol / Countess Markievicz, 1916
Pistol surrendered by Countess Markievicz to Major Harry E. de Courcy Wheeler at the Royal College of Surgeons, at the end of Easter week, 1916. Browning Fabrique Nationale automatic pistol. Calibre .25', number 474251, in leather holster. Pistol marked as above, and with 'FN' on butt. One...
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...
box / William Partridge, 1916
William Partridge's rosary beads and case on which he used to recite the Rosary to his comrades in the College of Surgeons during Easter Week 1916. The scene was described by Countess Markievicz in her poem: "To a Comrade". Set of small brown wooden beads, some carved, with a brass...
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...
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.
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 / Margaret Skinnider, I.C.A.
Miss Margaret Skinnider, Irish Citizen Army, portrait photograph of. Skinnider served in the Royal College of Surgeons, 1916, and was wounded there.
Sam Browne belt / Countess Markievicz, 1916
Sam Brown belt. Brown leather with brass fittings. Worn by Countess Constance Markievicz, along with a bandolier, as Commandant in Irish Citizen Army during Easter Week, 1916 and afterwards.