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.
internment order / James Kavanagh, S.S. Argenta, 1922
Internment order of James Kavanagh of Alexandra Place, Londonderry , in S.S. Argenta in Belfast Lough 19 June 1922 signed (typed) by R. Dawson Bates. 1 sheet, printed, details typed.reproduction / James Kavanagh, S.S. Argenta, 1922
Internment order of James Kavanagh of Alexandra Place, Londonderry , in S.S. Argenta in Belfast Lough 19 June 1922 signed (typed) by R. Dawson Bates. 1 sheet, printed, details typed.
prison art / Republican, c.1922-3
Greeting card, handmade by a Republican Prisoner, c.1922-3. Circa2.5" square, folded. Pen and ink drawing and cut-out of an ivy leafwith what is described as a "piece of tree cut by I.R.A., April. 1921" attached.
prison autograph album / Kilmainham Jail, 1923
Autograph album, containing signatures of republican prisoners in Kilmainham Jail, 1923.
drawing / Kilmainham Jail Chapel, 1923
Kilmainham Jail Chapel, pen and ink sketch by Grace Plunkett. Signed Mrs. Joseph Plunkett, Kilmainham, 1923.
prison autograph album / Kilmainham & North Dublin Union, 1923
Autograph album kept in Kilmainham and North Dublin Union in 1923, with late entries, by sister of M.C. Chalane and including entries by Grace Plunkett, Agnes O'Farrelly, Nora Connolly O'Brien, Maire Mac Swiney, Austin Stack, Eamon de Valera, Countess Markievicz etc.
prison autograph album / Kilkenny Prison, 1922
Autograph book containing signatures of prisoners in Kilkenny Prison, 1922. First name, possibly the owner, is Leo Furlong, in A Wing of Kilkenny Jail.
prison art / Kilmainham, 1923
Countess Markievicz drawings in album kept by Mary Burke Dowling (and including some of her own sketches). Fronticpiece of the Windsor and Newtown Drawing Book is a title piece "Scenes in Prison". A wash drawing of a cell follows; then signed watercolour of her cell in Kilmainham in 1923 by Mary...
card / Portlaoise Prison, 1922
Handmade Christmas card from Portlaoise Prison, 1922 from the brother of the donor, Mary Kearns.
prison art / Mountjoy, 1922
Mountjoy Prisoner's Work. Spoon, aluminium, decorated by prisoner. All over incised scroll and floral decoration. On bowl: "B. Brady. Prisoner of War. Mountjoy. 1922". (And see EW 942).
autograph album / Andy Cooney, , Mountjoy Jail, 1923
Autograph book, photocopy of, Andy Cooney, Mountjoy Jail, 1923.
prison art / Kilmainham, 1923
Watch pendant, silver, in the shaped of a celtic cross, with celtic design of triangles and knots. Made in Kilmainham Jail, Christmas, 1923. On the back is a scratched inscription in Irish ‘ do Seosamh(?) ó nAthair, Nollaig, 1923’ (to Seosamh from your father, Christmas 1923).
letter / Michael to Joseph Fleming, 1922
Letter, from Michael Fleming to his son Joseph Fleming in prison, dated 11 August 1922, Irish Civil War. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co....
letter / Austin, 1924
Letter, written by Austin, from a prison, dated 22 January 1924. Refes to hunger strike. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who...
prison autograph album / Newbridge Camp, 1923
Autograph album, containing signatures of prisoners in Newbridge Prison Camp, 1923.
prison autograph album / Cork Prison, 1923
Autograph album, containing signatures of republican prisoners in Cork Female Prison, 1923. Signatures of male prisoners.
last letter / Republican prisoner, November 1922
Part of what appears to be a last letter from a Republican prisoner, to his mother, 16 November 1922. Print, made in the National Museum, from the glass plate negative. This copy in reverse.
last letter / Republican prisoner, November 1922
Another part of what appears to be a last letter from a Republican prisoner, to his mother, 16 November 1922. This portion is signed Peter Cassidy. Print, made in the National Museum, from the glass plate negative. This copy in reverse.
prison art / Newbridge Internment Camp, 1922-23
A harp carved from bone by a prisoner at Newbridge Internment Camp, 1922-23. Harp 12" by 7" ornamented with gold paint and with inscription "Newbridge Internment Camp, 1922-23". On cast bronze pedestal, 2" high.