Historical Collections Online
Search our Historical Collections Online, a sample of 10,000 artefacts from the National Museum of Ireland’s Historical, Military and Easter Week Collections, published as part of the Decade of Commemorations.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Illuminated page. Countess Markievicz, Holloway Jail, January 1919. Watercolour illumination of James Connolly's proclamation in calligraphy. Two creatures, inspired by those in Early Christian manuscripts, are shown devouring the Union Jack.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Sea and land, trees, mountains.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Rainbow.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, 1918. Twilight, Child, with fairy woman enticing it.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Peasant woman sewing, child in cradle beside hearth.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Land and seascape.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail June 1918. Peasant riding horse with arm round woman's neck, walking.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, August 1919. Fishermen dragging the nets on to the shore.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail September 1918. Female warrior, carrying shield, with spear aloft.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, September 1919. Seascape, mountains in background.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail August 1918. Old woman, at her knee a small fairhaired boy.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, August 1919. Rainbow.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, August 1918. Warriors, swords aloft, two on horses, swearing fealty.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, August 1919. Woman feeding doves in village street.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, 1918. Girl driving geese through wood.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, August 1918. Warriors charging on horseback.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail August 1918. Patriotic allegory.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail August 1919. Dawn over the sea.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918. Peasant on a horse, and a woman walking.