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 / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Watercolour sketch, 1923. 7.9 x 10.3 inches, depicting a cross between draped tricolours on a plinth inscribed to the memory of those dying 'Defending the Republic 1916-23'. Painted by Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade, in Newbridge Camp.
prison art / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Watercolour certificate, 1923. 9 x 6.9 inches, with legend 'Priosunach Cogad in Droichead Nua Condae Childers'. Painted by Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade in Newbridge Camp.
prison art / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Watercolour certificate, 1923. 8.9 x 6.9 inches, with legend 'Prisoner's of War Newbridge Camp Co. Kildare Football League'. Painted by Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade in Newbridge Camp.
prison art / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Watercolour certificate, 1923. 8.9 x 6.9 inches, with legend 'Prisoner's of War Newbridge Camp Co. Kildare'. Painted by Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade in Newbridge Camp.
prison art / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Watercolour certificate 1923. 9 x 6.9 inches, with legend (in pencil) 'Prisoner's of War Newbridge Det. Camp Co. Kildare Football League'. Painted by Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade in Newbridge Camp.
prison art / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Watercolour certificate, 1923. 10.3 x 7.9 inches, with legend 'Prisoner's of War Newbridge Camp Co. Kildare Final Football League Player'. Painted by Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade in Newbridge Camp.
prison art / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Watercolour certificate, 1923. 8.9 x 6.9 inches, with legend 'Prisoner's of War Newbridge Camp Co. Kildare'. Flags visible on both sections of the crossed staffs on which IRA crest is superimposed. Painted by Paddy Cogger, East Mayo Brigade in Newbridge Camp.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch by Cathal MacDubhghaill of one man standing, cutting the hair of another man kneeling; on paper 5.4" by 7.4". Two pages ex sketchbook torn out, only one side used.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 7.1" by 9.8", of head and shoulders of a man in a hat.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Sentry in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 8"x 9". Uniformed man seated and dozing, dated 5 November 1916.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner and Warder in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketches by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 11" by 7.5". Head and shoulders of bareheaded man on one side. On the other three sketches of warder with peaked cap and moustache.
postcard / 1913 Lockout
Postcard cartoon by Ernest Cavanagh. Satirising William Martin Murphy and the Scottish Borderers and listing people killed in the 1913 baton charge and the 1914 shootings at Bachelors Walk.
prison autograph album / Frongoch, 1916
Autograph album kept in Frongoch Internment Camp in 1916. Includes entries from Brian Ó hUiginn, M.J. O'Connor, J.J. Scollan, Domhnall Ó Buachalla, Michael Mac Stáin, Garry Holohan, Sean McLoughlin, Eamonn T. Dore, Proinsias Ó Fathaigh, Seamus Ua Tallamhain, Garróid Ó Beoláin, Oscar Traynor etc.
souvenir / Belfast Prison, 1918
One of three brooches of two designs made in Belfast Prison in 1918. The brooches (one harp, two 'Tara' type) were made from the lead pipes of the prison Laundry and the casting was accomplished by the aid of a prison cell bath brick. The designs are a trefoil and a 'Tara' type. The designer and a...
newspaper / Labour Leader, 30 Dec. 1920
Issue of the newspaper 'Labour Leader', 30 December 1920, Vol. 17, no. 53. With title article 'A New Year "Sursum Corda!"
newspaper / Labour Leader, 27 Jan 1921
Issue of the newspaper 'Labour Leader', 27 January 1921, Vol. 18, no.4. With title article 'Foreign Policy , Political Action and Employment'.
newspaper / Labour Leader, 10 June 1921
Issue of the newspaper 'Labour Leader', 10 June 1921, Vol. 18, no.23. With title article '5,000,000 Workers Up Against it'.
order / Countermanding Order, 1916 Rising
Letter by Eoin Mac Néill authenticating his order countermanding mobilisation on Easter Saturday, published in the 'Sunday Independant' Easter Sunday 1916. On paper stamped 'Woodtown Park, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin'. Dated Easter Sunday. 'The order to Irish Volunteers printed over my name in...
newspaper / Nationality, 31 July 1915
"Nationality" 31 July 1915.