'These are not the grand historical artefacts': Museum's everyday items give true insight 

Daryl Hendley Rooney, curator at The Little Museum of Dublin, with a pair of children's shoes crafted by Kathleen Clarke while she was in prison. Picture: Moya Nolan

A cigarette retrieved from the pocket of William Pearse shortly after his execution at Kilmainham Gaol is just one of the items capturing imaginations at a Dublin museum.

The piece forms part of a new collection at the Little Museum of Dublin which was donated to the Edmund Rice Trust and presented to the Military Archives in 2016 to commemorate the centenary of the Easter Rising.