playing card / Thomas MacDonagh, Kilmainham, 1916

A pack of playing cards found in the cell of Thomas MacDonagh the day after his execution, Kilmainham, 3 May 1916. Given some time after 1916 to Very Rev. D.A. Crotty, C.S.A. by a nun who was a sister of Thomas McDonagh. Fr. Crotty in turn, gave the cards to his sister, Mrs. J. Norton, mother of the donor. A pack containing 54 cards, 51 of one set, a Joker and ace of spades of another, written on latter "2 of Clubs" as a replacement for a missing card, and a Joker of a third - written on this, "3 Spades". Kilmainham, 1916;