Historical Collections Online

 

medal / Ballykinlar G.A.A., 1921

Ballykinlar G.A.A. Football Medal, 1921. Medal, silver and gold. In shape of a Celtic Cross. One one side is an ornamental Celtic cross, while the other side bears the inscription, 'G.A.A. BP. Baile-Coinnleoir Soisir 1921'.

 

photograph / Ballykinlar, 1921

Photograph, 5 inches by 3 inches. Group photograph of a football team, No. 1 Camp, Ballykinlar, 1921.

 

prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920/21

Finger ring made by Peadar Kearney while a prisoner in Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-21. Silver. Inscribed: "P.K." and "1920-1."

 

prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921

View of Ballykinlar Camp painted on a handkerchief and signed 'O. Nevin, 1921'. Depicting five huts, a sentry post and a Union Jack flag. Given to Miss Anne Harrington as a souvenir by an ex-prisoner.

 

prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, c.1921

View of Ballykinlar Camp painted on a handkerchief and signed 'O. Nevin' and subtitled H. Coy, Ballykinlar. Depicting 10 huts, a barbed wire entanglement and the Mountains of Mourne in the background. Given to Miss Anne Harrington as a souvenir by an ex-prisoner. c.1921.

 

photograph / Ballykinlar No. 1 Internment Camp, 1920-21

Mounted photograph of Irish Republican Prisoners in Ballykinlar No. 1 Internment Camp, 1920-21. Mounted on brown card with names of those in photograph printed beneath. Entitled: "Over-Seas Men". Photograph by Frank McKay, 12 Emerald Square, Dolphin's Barn, Dublin.

 

photograph / Release/or/Death, 1920-21

Mounted photograph of a large group of men in civilian clothes and two women and three nurses in uniform. In foreground a tricolour flag is held up, with the words, "Release/or/Death". No identification but labelled 'This could be a photograph of prisoners in English jails released/after a hunger...

 

currency / Ballykinlar, 1920

Ballykinlar token 1d. 1920. A paper disc 2.1 inches in diameter showing on the obverse ID in yellow within a yellow circle with Campa/a dó on scrolls on either side with Gaedhil Fé Ghlas and i mBaile-Choinnleóra above and below. The printers name on reverse is O'Loughlin, Murphy and Boland.

 

prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-1921

Ballykinlar Camp autograph album, 1920/1921. Red morocco leather cover. Inscribed inside 'Madge Henderson, 14 St. Kevin's Rd., Sth. Cir. Rd. City'.

 

prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-1921

Ballykinlar Camp autograph album, 1920/1921. Slate grey morocco leather cover. Inscribed inside 'John Harmon, No. 126 Hut 32, "A" Coy., No. 1 Camp Ballykinlar Co. Down and 7, Meath Place, (Off Meath Street) Dublin.

 

photograph / Ballykinlar, 1921

Ballykinlar Camp 1921. Photograph of a group of prisoners - 34 persons in four rows. Postcard size.

 

photograph / Ballykinlar, 1921

Ballykinlar Camp 1921. Photograph of a group of prisoners - 34 in four rows. Postcard size.

 

form / Ballykinlar, 1921

Printed statement of prisoners' credit form, Ballykinlar, 1921. With name details etc. filled in in pencil, 5.2 x 4 ins.

 

prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921

Autograph book kept in Ballykinlar Camp in 1921. Including drawings, paintings, poems etc., by various prisoners.

 

carving / Ballykinlar, 1921

Wooden plague carved by prisoner in Ballykinlar in 1921. Heart shaped 8.5 ins. long with another heart shape cut out in centre probably for a photograph - out of which a cross appears on right and a scroll terminating in the word LOVE on left. on sides T CASSIDY NO.26 HUT 35 CAMP NO 1 and...

 

photograph / Arthur Griffith and Children

Photograph of Arthur Griffith walking up a garden pathway toward a house with his two children, Ita and Nevin, on his release from prison. Undated. Griffth was imprisoned in 1916, Gloucester Jail in 1919 and Mountjoy Prison in 1921.

 

photograph / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920

Full plate photograph of 25 prisoners in Ballykinlar Camp in 1920 showing the men (from "C" Coy. Hut 16) in civilian clothes in four rows. Another shot of EWP.195 under which the names of all these in the photograph are given - First Row (top) - Edward Travers, James McArdle, Wm. Kelly, Michael...

 

prison art / Ballykinlar, 1921

Bone brooch from Ballykinlar. 1.4 x .8 ins. scroll shaped bearing the word ROSE engraved in double line on front. 1.2 ins. pin affixed to back on which is engraved Baile Coinnleora/1921. Made by the father of Pádraig Ó Fathaigh, Edward Leonard, for Pádraig's mother Rose (née Maguire).

 

prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 2921

Ballykinlar autograph album, 1921. Kept there by Morgan J. O'Brien including signatures, notes, pictures, quotations from Liam Ó Rinn, T.S. Cuffe, Sean Milroy, Risteárd Ó hAodha, Theo Fitzgerald, Sean Lemass, Joseph McGrath et al., and samples of the 1d., 3d., 6d. and 1/- Ballykinlar tokens.

 

prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921

One of three 'Harp' brooches made by Kit Mullen in Ballykinlar Internment Camp. Carved from meat bones, and bearing the initials of Kit Mullan's wife and children. He made the brooches whilst a prisoner in No. 2 Camp Ballykinlar, 1921.