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 / Curragh Internment Camp, 1922
(Cashman 166) Photograph of the release of Republican prisoners from the Curragh Internment Camp, 1922.
autograph album / Michael Donnolly, Tintown No.2, 1923
Autograph book of Michael Donnolly, 9517 Hut 15, Tintown Camp No. 2, Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, dated 25 November 1923. Michael Donnolly was a member of the 4th Northern Division.prison autograph album / Hare Park, The Curragh, 1924
Autograph book, 1924, Hare Park, The Curragh, of O'Morunaig, Tipperary. Contains verse, illustrations and clippings. The letter 'M' on the cover.
prison autograph album / Hare Park Camp, 1923
Autograph book from Hare Park Camp, The Curragh, with entries dated 1923. Owned by Seamus Mac Gearailte(?). Black faux-leather cover with gilted word 'Autographs'
prison autograph album / S.S. Argenta, 1922
Autograph album from the prison ship SS Argenta, 1922, containing signatures and inscriptions, of various republican prisoners, dating from October to December, and a poem entitled "The Last Post for Erskine Childers".
prison art / Tintown Camp, 1923
Tintown Detention Camp souvenir. Harp carved out of bone (c.15" by 10" max dimensions) by Patrick Daly in Tintown in 1923. 5 strings in centre.
prison autograph album / Tintown Camp, 1923
Autograph album from Tintown, 1923, which was owned by the donor's father, Peadar White of the 1st Battalion Dublin Brigade. Among those who contributed entries (quotes, notes, verses, drawings, watercolours) are Lee Casey, Sean Mooney, Sean O Tuama and Sean an Chota.
prison art / Republican, 1923
Wool-work table mat, made by Republican prisoner, 1923. Yellow, red, green one side; white, green, purple other - circa 8" square. Probably Hare Park, The Curragh.
prison art / Republican, 1923
Wool-work table mat, made by Republican prisoner, 1923. Yellow, red, green one side; white, green, purple other - circa 8" square. Probably Hare Park, The Curragh.
prison art / Hare Park, The Curragh, 1923
Wool-work table mat, made by Republican prisoner, 1923. Diamond-shaped, blue, pink, white, black, c. 22" by 13". Note attached - "Thomas Devine. 97. Hut 37. Harepark."
prison art / Hare Park, The Curragh, 1923
Embroidered handkerchief, made by Republican prisoner 1923. 'Hare Park. A Tricolour 1923. I.R.A. Curragh'. c. 18" square. White. Coloured embroidery.
prison art / Republican, 1923
Metal brooch, made by Republican prisoner 1923. Probably Hare Park, The Curragh.
prayer book / 'The Imitation of Christ', Liam Mellows, Mountjoy, 1922
Liam Mellow's prayer book. A 608 pp. Cullen of Dublin edition of 'The Imitation of Christ' with a small photograph of Mellows attached to one of the front blanks, enclosing a memorial card to Mellows (EW.5450a), and with the following manuscript note on one blank page inside front "Liam Mellows had...memorial card / 'The Imitation of Christ', Liam Mellows, Mountjoy, 1922
Memorial card of Liam Mellows, executed in Mountjoy Jail, 8th December, 1922. Found in the pages of a religious book belonging to Liam Mellows - 'The Imitation of Christ' (EW.5450).
Patrick's Day card / Newbridge Jail, 1923
Newbridge Jail 1923. Manuscript St. Patrick's Day card sent by donor's great uncle to his parents.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 / Mountjoy Prison & Gormanstown Camp, 1922 / 1923
Autograph book of prisoners in Mountjoy Prison and Gormanstown Camp, 1922 and 1923. Bound in boards covered in imitation leather, pages inside, light green. c. 4.5" by 6".
prison autograph album / Kilmainham Gaol / Hare Park 1923 - 1924
Autograph album kept by Republican prisoners in Kilmainham and Hare Park 1923/4.
receipt / Hare Park, 1923
Letter acknowledging receipt of 299 prisoners from Kilkenny Jail to Hare Park Internment Camp, The Curragh. Dated 9th November 1923.