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prison autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
Autograph album kept in Belfast Jail in 1918. Inscriptions and artwork. With maroon morocco leather cover.
prison autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
Autograph album from Belfast Jail, November 1918, compiled by Patrick Fitzpatrick of Keady, Co. Armagh. A copybook with autographs. 2/3 of one cover remaining.
prison autograph album / Belfast Jail, 1918
A prison album from Belfast Jail, 10th July 1918 to 27 Nov. 1918. The album contains sketches, messages and autographs. Among the autographs are the following: Terence MacSwiney, Austen Stack, Joseph MacDonagh, Most Rev. Doctor D. McGeehan (then chaplain to the prisoners), Ernest Blythe, Eamonn...
prison autograph album / Belfast Prison & Derry, 1940
Autograph book, with republican prisoners' inscriptions made in Derry and Belfast Prison, dated 1940. Light brown coloured paper cover.
prison autograph album / Belfast Prison, 1940
Autograph book, with republican prisoners' inscriptions made in Belfast Prison, dated 1940. Light brown coloured plastic cover.
leaflet / English Horrors in Irish Jails, 1918
Pamphlet, 4 pages (one folded sheet), 'English Horrors in Irish Jails'. Reproduction of a statement of Charles Kenny on the violence in Belfast Jail during a hunger strike by prisoners, 1918.
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,...