prison art / Republican prisoner art / craft, 1980s

Republican prisoner art / craft, 1980s. Tooled leather pocket book with Celtic designs, including a Tara brooch on the back, and the script "Pádraig" on front. On the side is the script "Portlaoise 1983". Red leather with brown inside. A piece of paper inside reads "C. Mac Curtáin. Le bailiú ag Doirin Mhic Mhurchú, i tiachóg". Made by Liam Coyle of Derry interned in Long Kesh Huts Compound, (The Maze), Lisburn, Co.Antrim, Northern Ireland) when in Portlaoise, 1983. Coyle never transferred to the H Blocks.;