Limerick a prominent feature of new gallery at National Museum of Ireland

Name: Limerick a prominent feature of new gallery at National Museum of Ireland
Uploaded: 2025-11-04T18:00:28+00:00
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Description: OBJECTS from Limerick are a prominent feature of The Changing Ireland Galleries officially launched at the National Museum of Ireland.

Sarah Coleman

November 4, 2025

Button — Commandant Edward Daly's Irish Volunteer tunic button, given by him to a nun in the North Dublin Union. The nun had it inscribed and later presented it to his sister, Madge Daly. Brass coloured Irish Volunteer button, one inch in diameter with a harp in the centre but no I or V letters on either side. IRISH - 1916 - REPUBLIC engraved around the harp. Engraved on the back is TO S.A. FROM COMMANDANT DALY. The button was later fitted with a pin to wear as a brooch, but the pin is missing. In a box with the inscription of C. Cromer, Jeweller, Limerick.

OBJECTS from Limerick are a prominent feature of The Changing Ireland Galleries officially launched at the National Museum of Ireland.

Collins Barracks marks the biggest expansion of public galleries in over two decades.

Local objects include a handkerchief decorated and signed in 1977 by female republican paramilitary prisoners Rita O’Hare, Rose Dugdale, Marian Coyle, Marie Murray, and Angela Duffin in Limerick Prison, symbolising resistance and solidarity; and an Irish Volunteer uniform tunic button belonging to Edward Daly (born 1891), executed on May 4, 1916, connecting the county to Ireland’s revolutionary history.

The galleries were opened by Tánaiste Simon Harris and Limerick’s Minister for Culture Patrick O’Donovan.