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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.

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photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. Shows a football game in progress. View accross playing field towards N.E.

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. View from inside, through the doorway of No.1 Hut, A Coy. lines, looking east. Shows Sgt. Roper of the Black Watch in middle centre, and in the left foreground Ed McEvoy, a prisoner, standing in the doorway through which the...

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. Shows interior of a hospital in the Camp. 4.2" by 2.75".

newspaper / The Spark, 26 March 1916

Newspaper, The Spark, Vol. 3, No. 60, Sunday 26 March 1916, with article "Souls and Swords" edited by Ed Dalton.

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. View looking South along the the East side of the Camp. Soldiers digging a deep trench around the Camp between the wire and the huts to prevent tunnelling. This was done after a mass escape through a tunnel at a point on...

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows Internees leaving Mass on Sunday. Mass was celebrated in the Hut on right in photo', which could not accommodate the congragation. Those unable to get in surrounded the hut, the door and window of which were left open....

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows the Camp Sergeant Major and another soldier driving a cart carrying the prisoner's mail to the Camp post office to be censored. 4.2" by 2.75".

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Group of Internee patients. Tuberculosis patients, outside the Isolation Hospital.

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...

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. View taken from the door of the Altar of the Catholic Church, where Fr. Paddy Smith of Tullamore, himself a prisoner celebrated Mass for the Internees. 4.7" by 2.7"

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows group of Internees at laundry work. On right is the prisoner who took charge of the boiler and provided the hot water supply.

photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921

Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows Internees at a physical training class organised by Paddy Daly, fifth from right in photograph. 4.2" by 2.75".