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.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Two internees; Barney Walsh (left) and Dr. Conlon. 5.3 inches by 3.7 inches.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Group of Internees outside door of No.1 Hut A.Coy. line. This hut housed the Company leaders as well as the Internee Commandant. Left to right: James Corless, Mick O'Leary, ( ? ), Michael McHugh, John Joe Walsh.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Left to right - Dr. Michael Farrell, John P.M. Cotter, James Victory, and Dr. Conlon.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. 5.6" by 3.75". Shows Thomas Cotter, Dublin, then a patient in hospital in the Camp.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows two Internees; Dr. J. Fehilly (left) and Dr. Mick Farrell.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. 5.75" BY 3.7". Shows Joseph V. Lawless, Internee Vice-Commandant.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
View of Ballykinlar Camp painted on a handkerchief and signed 'O. Nevin, 1921'. Depicting five huts, a sentry post and a Union Jack flag. Given to Miss Anne Harrington as a souvenir by an ex-prisoner.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, c.1921
View of Ballykinlar Camp painted on a handkerchief and signed 'O. Nevin' and subtitled H. Coy, Ballykinlar. Depicting 10 huts, a barbed wire entanglement and the Mountains of Mourne in the background. Given to Miss Anne Harrington as a souvenir by an ex-prisoner. c.1921.
photograph / Thomas Whelan, Mountjoy Jail, 1921
Photograph of Thomas Whelan being led by two British Army officers in Mountjoy Jail. Said to have been taken when being led to his execution, 14 March 1921.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. 5.75" by 3.9". Double exposure, with group of three vertically, and group of two which is clearer, are identified : Dr. Ned Dundon (left) and James Corless.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. View taken through centre of Camp looking N. towards entrance gates. Hut on right with high windows is bath house, and behind it is fumigator. Behind that is a dining hall. Tents in photograph were erected to house prisoners who could...
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. 6.3" by 4.5". View looking N. on W. side of the Camp. On left is part of the line of huts known as "A" Company lines. In centre to right is a latrine and on right part of one of the huts of "B" Coy. line of huts. In background are the...
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken inside hospital in Camp. Left to right are:- Tom Cotter, Frank Buffin, ( ? ); three internee patients.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Shows occupants of the leaders Hut (No.1 of "A" Coy. lines), at an al fresco meal. Left to right are: Seated:- Justin McKenna, Michael O'Leary, James Victory, Peadar McMahon (Internee Commandant - at end of table), Thomas Derrig, Joe...
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken outside Internees Hospital. Left to right are: Joseph V. Lawless, Jimmy Kelly, and ?
baton / Ulster Volunteer Force
One of two wooden batons used by the Ulster Volunteer Forces before the Larne Gun-Running. Turned wooden batons, lft. 9.5 in. in length. One end shaped as handle.
baton / Ulster Volunteer Force
One of two wooden batons used by the Ulster Volunteer Forces before the Larne Gun-Running. Turned wooden batons, lft. 9.5 in. in length. One end shaped as handle.
souvenir / Pearse / Irish Volunteers
Button from an Irish Volunteer tunic worn by Commandant General Patrick Pearse. Moulded leather button enamelled dark green, with metal back plate and lug. One inch in diameter. It was given to Mrs M.I. Murphy by Mrs. Margaret Pearse in the summer of 1916.
photograph / Irish Volunteers, Enniscorthy, 1916
Photograph, The surrender of the Irish Volunteers at Enniscorthy in 1916. Shows double column of Irish Volunteers being escorted by British soldiers from their headquarters at the Athenaeum Club, passing through a watching crowd in Castle Street in Enniscorthy. Photograph measures 8 by 5.4 inches.