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 art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Prison Art. Sketch, coloured, depicting scene in Ballykinlar Prison Camp, 1921. By J. Bracken, an internee, from Dublin. Sign, reading ‘Comrades must bring their own towels, by order’. Ballykinlar Shaving Saloon.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Prison Art. Sketch, coloured, depicting scene in Ballykinlar Prison Camp, 1921. Prison huts. No artist name, but probably Maurice MacGonigal.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Prison Art. Sketch, coloured, depicting scene in Ballykinlar Prison Camp, 1921. By Maurice MacGonigle, an internee. Interior of prison hut, with group of men, seated on the floor and a bench.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Prison Art. Sketch, coloured, depicting scene in Ballykinlar Prison Camp, 1921. Interior of hut, showing cot and personal belongings, with a man in uniform. Probably by Maurice MacGonigal, an internee.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Prison Art. Sketch, coloured, drawn in Ballykinlar Prison Camp, 1921. Sketches of five men. No artist’s name, but probably by Maurice MacGonigle, an internee.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Prison Art. Sketch, coloured, depicting scene in Ballykinlar Prison Camp, 1921. A bearded man on his way to the barber, with the words ‘I don’t care, I’m going to the camp barber’ in pencil. A group of five men stand behind him, with the words ‘There’s hair’ in pencil above. No artist name.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Prison Art. Sketch, coloured, drawn in Ballykinlar Prison Camp, 1921. Depicting a young man in uniform. No artist name, but probably by Maurice MacGonigal, an internee.
prison art / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Ring made from a penny by J. O'Connor of Killarney, in Ballykinlar Prison Camp. Undecorated brass ring.
prison art / Maud Gonne MacBride
Watercolour painting of Maud Gonne MacBride, by Countess Constance de Markievicz.. Seated in a prison cell, in mourning dress. Titled 'Mrs Gonne MacBride' and signed. Holloway, 1918.
photograph / Tadhg Barry, 1921
Postcard photograph, Tadhg Barry of Cork, trade union leader, who died at Ballykinlar Internment Camp in November 1921.
letter / Usk Jail Escape, 1919
Usk Jail Escape, 21 January 1919. Duplicated copy of 5 page foolscap letter of May 1944 from George Geraghty to Seamus McGrath, detailing the story of his escape with Joe McGrath, Frank Shouldice and Barney Mellows.
autograph album / 1921-1923
Autograph Album 1921-1923, including, on 10 August 1921; Joe McGrath, Fionan O Loinsigh, Joe McDonagh, Piaras Beaslai, Alex McCabe, Sean Milroy, Eamonn de Valera, Erskine Childers, Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith, Desmond Fitzgerald, J.J. Walsh, references to Dublin Guards (in 1922) and to the...
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1919. Landscape, with river.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918. Man on horse, leading another.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1919. Seascape, sunset.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail July 1919. Dying soldier, with woman ministering to him.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918. Girl driving sheep.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, July 1919. Seascape, evening.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Illuminated page. Countess Markievicz, Holloway Jail, January 1919. Watercolour illumination of James Connolly's proclamation in calligraphy. Two creatures, inspired by those in Early Christian manuscripts, are shown devouring the Union Jack.