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 / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, 1918/1919. Goddess.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, 1918/1919. Forest Pool, two figures in white, male and female.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, 1918. Old woman sitting at smoking woodfire.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, December 1918. Celtic woman and attendant, at brazier.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, December 1919. Tea table, Holloway Jail.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, December 1918. Dying soldier, attended by Angel.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, February 1919. Two women working in a ploughed field.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918. Waves, with nymph at foot of cliff sitting on a rock.
prison art / C de M., Holloway Jail Feb. 1919
Drawing by Countess Markievicz. Coloured pen and ink drawing, depicting a nocturnal raid on an elderly couple in bed. Initialled "C de M. Holloway Jail Feb. 1919". 7 inches by 10 inches.
prison autograph album / Wormwood Scrubs & St. Mary's Infirmary, 1920
Autograph album, of Sean Murphy. Containing signatures of prisoners in Wormwood Scrubs, and St. Mary's Infirmary, Highgate Hill, London. 1920.
prison art / Kilworth Camp, 1921
Carved Celtic cross of oak made by donor, Patrick Ronan, in Kilworth Camp, Co. Cork, 1921. Carved with interlaced work and round tower and with glazed inset containing Donor's hair and that of wife. 14" high by 9" across. Carved with a penknife.
prison art / Kilworth Camp, 1921
Carved oak picture frame made by the donor, Patrick Ronan, while a prisoner at Kilworth Camp, Co. Cork, 1921 Design of interlaced work carved with penknife; background stippled with nail. 9.5" by 7.5".
internment order / James Kavanagh, Wormwood Scrubs, 1920
Typescript copy of internment order to H.M. Prison at Wormwood Scrubs of James Kavanagh of Londonderry. Original signed by French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin Castle, 10 April, 1920. 1 sheet.reproduction / James Kavanagh, Wormwood Scrubs, 1920
Typescript copy of internment order to H.M. Prison at Wormwood Scrubs of James Kavanagh of Londonderry. Original signed by French, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Dublin Castle, 10 April, 1920. 1 sheet.
cartoon / British Chivalry, 1920
Postcard cartoon; Cartoon, titled 'British Chivalry', depicting John Bull character strangling a woman holding rosary beads, outside a prison - Wormwood Scrubs, England. By Art Cavanagh, 1920.
cartoon / British Chivalry, 1920
Postcard cartoon; Cartoon, titled 'British Chivalry', depicting John Bull character strangling a woman holding rosary beads, outside a prison - Wormwood Scrubs, England. By Art Cavanagh, 1920.
photograph / Galway, 1920-1921
Photograph of the prisoners interned in the Town Hall, Galway, 1920-21. Mounted on black cardboard. 10" x 8", by Hill, Photographer, Galway.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. View looking S.W. from N.W. corner of the Camp. Clothes line in forreground; in background is second internment camp built on the west side of the existing camp. This second camp was never filled...
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Copy of photograph of Rath Internment Camp. (Label) "Internees entering the dining hut of A and B coys". August 1921.