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.
permit / Ballykinlar, 1920
Permanent pass, no 570, made out to Richard Carney of 49 North Parade with permission to enter Ballykinlar Internment Camp, dated 27 December 1920. Signed but ink faded.
album / Patrick O'Hanlon, Ballykinlar, 1920-21
Ballykinlar Autograph Album, kept by Patrick O'Hanlon at No. 1 camp there 1920, 1921, including signatures, cartoons, quotations, sketches and water colours.
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar, 1921
Autograph book or album, belonging to Joseph E. Nolan, prisoner number 215. B Company, Hut 29 of No. 1 Internment Camp, Ballykinlar, Co. Down. Dated May 1921.
prison art / Jack Leigh, Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-1921
Framed picture. Prison craft work, painted sacred heart (fabric) and thorns, associated with the donor's Great Uncle Jack Leigh, Ballykinlar, who broke his collarbone while on the run. 1920-1921
prison token / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-1921
Six pence token made from cardboard, used as currency in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Camp No. 2, between 1920 - 1921. Printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy, Boland Ltd, Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants, Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
prison token / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-21
Five shilling token made from cardboard, used as currency in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Camp No. 2, between 1920 - 1921. Printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy, Boland Ltd, Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants, Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
prison token / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-21
A one shilling token, made from cardboard and used as currency in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Camp No. 2, between 1920 - 1921. Printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy, Boland Ltd, Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants, Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
prison token / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-21
Three pence token made from cardboard, used in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Camp No. 2, between 1920 - 1921. Printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy, Boland Ltd, Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants, Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
prison token / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-21
One shilling token made from cardboard, Ballykinlar Prison Camp, Camp 2, c.1920-1921. Printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy, Boland Ltd, Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants, Upper Dorset Street, Dublin
prison token / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-21
One pence token made from cardboard, Ballykinlar Prison Camp, Camp 2, c.1920-21. Printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy, Boland Ltd, Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants, Upper Dorset Street, Dublin
prison token / Ballykinlar, 1920-1921
One punt (pound) token made from cardboard, used in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, Camp No. 2, between 1920 - 1921. Printed by O'Loughlin, Murphy, Boland Ltd, Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants, Upper Dorset Street, Dublin.
prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920 - 1921
Belt. Belt made by prisoner in Ballykinlar Camp, 1920 to 1921. Wool, woven with tricolour flags and other designs in the colours of the tricolour. Fitted with two leather straps and two metal buckles. Back with webbing. Length 82 cm x Width 4.5 cm.
autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Autograph album, containing signatures of prisoners in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1921. Black leather cover with the word ‘Album’ in gold. Inscription on first page reads ‘To dear Anne / From Mother’ / 4th March 1921’. Includes a list of all inmates of ‘Hut 37, H. Coy. Camp II’, poems , and...
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar, 1920-21
Prison autograph book with signatures taken at Ballykinlar Internment Camp. 1920-1921.
class report / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Class report forms (two pages, duplicate ruled and headed) Ballykinlar No. 2 Camp, 1921. The subjects of instruction stated are "Mensuration A" and "Mensuration B", the actual subject was musketry.class report / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Class report forms (two pages, duplicate ruled and headed) Ballykinlar No. 2 Camp, 1921. The subjects of instruction stated are "Mensuration A" and "Mensturation B", the actual subject was musketry.
internment order / James Kavanagh, Ballykinlar, 1920
Internment order to Ballykinlar Camp of James Kavanagh, 19 Alexander Terrace, Londonderry. Signed (typed) by French, 10 December 1920. 1 sheet, printed, details typed.reproduction / James Kavanagh, Ballykinlar, 1920
Internment order to Ballykinlar Camp of James Kavanagh, 19 Alexander Terrace, Londonderry. Signed (typed) by French, 10 December 1920. 1 sheet, printed, details typed.
Lough Derg Medal / Ballykinlar, Lough Derg Exercises, 1921
Ballykinlar Camp Lough Derg Exercises. Medal, white medal. OBV: in centre, view of Lough Derg; around "Spiritual Exercises of St. Patrick's Purgatory"; below "Lough Derg in Ballykinlar Camp 11-15 August, 1921" REV: In centre, figure of St. Patrick; around "St. Patrick, Pray for Us." Diam. 1.25"