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photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows Internees on the football field after a mass escape of prisoners by tunnel. They were held on parade for some hours while the Camp authorities tried to establish the names of those missing and searched the camp for other escape preparations.;

Rath Internment Camp, 1921


Object Number:
HE:EW.1794


Institution:
NMI


Date:
1921


Creator:
Lawless, Joseph V., Colonel


Place of production:
Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, Co. Kildare, Ireland


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