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.
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.
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 / 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.
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.
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.