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 autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
Autograph album kept in Belfast Jail in 1918. With cardboard cover 8" by 6.5".
prison autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
Autograph album from Belfast Jail, 1918 (mostly) and bearing signatures of (and sometimes entries by) Austin Stack, Kevin C. Higgins, Earnan de Blaghd, Gearoid O'Beolain, Leo Bros, Liam Pedlar, Eamonn O'Duiblir and including an illuminated page giving the prison staff structure.
souvenir / Belfast Gaol, 1918
"Tara" brooch cast by a prisoner from lead from roof gutters of Belfast Jail, 1918. On the reverse is the cast inscription: "A souvenir of the siege in Belfast Gaol, Xmas Week, 1918" and "S. O Muineacháin" Diam. of circle, 2.75 inches; length of "pin", 4.25 inches. The brooch belonged to Felix...
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...
prison art / Belfast Gaol, 1918
A Tara style brooch made in Belfast Jail, aAfter the famous "siege" in 1918. It was handed out to a Mrs K. O'Lee by a young Dublin Volunteer named Curley. 'A Bit of Belfast Jail' on reverse. Made from lead from the fittings in the jail.
souvenir / Belfast Jail, 1918
Brooch, bronzed. Prison craft, Belfast Jail, 1918. 'A souvenir of the siege of Belfast Gaol. Xmas Week 1918'. Belfast Gaol, one of two "Tara" brooches, lead, one bronzed, the other gilt. They were designed and made by Liam Shaw of Stradbally, Co. Leix during the disturbances in Belfast Gaol,...
souvenir / Belfast Jail, 1918
Brooch, gilded. Prison craft, Belfast Jail, 1918. 'A souvenir of the siege of Belfast Gaol. Xmas Week 1918'. Belfast Gaol, one of two "Tara" brooches, lead, one bronzed, the other gilt. They were designed and made by Liam Shaw of Stradbally, Co. Leix during the disturbances in Belfast Gaol,...
photograph / Durham Prison, 1918
Photograph taken in Durham Prison, England, August 1918. Irish Republicans imprisoned under the excuse of a 'German Plot'. Showing nearest the camera from the left: Dan McCarthy of Dublin; Eamon O'Dwyer of Cashel, Co. Tipperary; Frank McGrath of Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. Nearest the camera from...
photograph / Durham Prison, August 1918
Photograph in sepia, taken in Durham Prison, England, August 1918. Irish Republicans were imprisoned under the excuse of a 'German Plot'. Pictured outside seated by prison wall: Mick Spillane of Killarney; Frank Bulfin of King's County; Eamon Bulfin of King's County; Dan McCarthy of Dublin,...note / Curragh Internment Camp, 1923
Curragh Internment Camp. Note signed O.T. (Oscar Traynor, Camp O.C.) Dated 20/10/1923 addressed to P.C. and on official Internment Camp paper - re fact that none of patients in Camp hospital are expected to take part in hunger strike.
prison autograph album / Michael Greene, 1918
Prayer Book “The Manual of Catholic Piety” published in Dublin by James Duffy and Co. Ltd, 38 Westmoreland Street. Inscribed “The Lord be Praised, God Save Ireland, Michael Greene, Kilbana I.V., Carrigaholt Batt. Clare Brigade, Limerick and Belfast Prisons, 16th August 1918. Ode to de Valera in...
prison autograph album / Mountjoy Jail, 1917
Autograph album, containing signatures of Irish Prisoners in Mountjoy Jail, 1917. c.6.25" x 3.75"
letter / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...
internment order / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...
verse / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...
service certificate / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...
letter / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...
letter / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...
service certificate / Patrick Keane, Dublin Brigade
Collection of private papers of Patrick Joseph Keane, of 55 Harrington Street, Hampstead Road, London NW1, regarding his application for a military pension for his service from 1916 to 1923, He was a member of D Coy., Batt. IV, Dublin Brigade from 1917, Company 2 from March 1918, arrested in 1920,...