prison art / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Medal from Rath Internment Camp, 1921. Made from an English halfcrown. Obverse, IRA/FINTAN MURPHY over a heart between two sprays of shamrocks. Around above DIA SAOR EIRE Reverse, NO630/HUT16/"B" COY./1921. Around above, RATH. INT. CAMP with a shamrock at either end. Around below, CURRAGH. Subsequently made into a bracelet by addition of lugs from which two chains are suspended, each bearing an English 3d. piece minted in 1916. Medal was made for Mr. Murphy by one of his fellow prisoners.;