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 autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Autograph album kept in Ballykinlar Camp in 1921 by Seán O hEidhin, including a press reproduction of a photograph of some of the prisoners and a list of those in Hut 16.
currency / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Ballykinlar 1d token. Cloakroom ticket counterfoil type, thin paper, deep blue in colour.
currency / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Ballykinlar 1d token. Cloakroom ticket counterfoil type, fairly thick paper, pale blue in colour.
timetable / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Ballykinlar Camp routine. Cloth backed printed notice giving the daily timetable for prisoners.
letter / Ballykinlar, 1921
Telegram addressed to Joe Hynes at 4 Queen St., dated 12 January 1921, from Ballykinlar Camp signed Jack with accompanying orange envelope.
prison art / Kit Mullen, Ballykinlar, 1920-1921
Sketch by Séan Milroy of Kit Mullen, who was known as The Lord Mayor of Ballykinlar. 1920 to 1921.
letter / Ballykinlar, 1921
Telegram addressed to Joe Hynes at Hut 16 C. Coy., Ballykinlar, on 18 January 1921.
military order / Ballykinlar, 1921
I.R.A. standing orders at Ballykinlar on a typed quarto sheet dated 8/9/21, and signed Thomas Fitzgerald (Commandant Camp No. 1).
account (financial) / Ballykinlar, 1921
Ballykinlar statement of account showing Joe Hynes credit balance on 1 December 1921.
form / Ballykinlar, 1921
Ballykinlar form of authority to transfer monies for internees. Joe Hynes began to complete form this but did not sign it.
instruction / Ballykinlar, 1921
Ballykinlar fire drill circular on duplicated foolscap sheet headed 'Fire Orders (ordinary)'.
internment order / Ballykinlar, 1921
Detention or internment order 1921, committing Joe Hynes to Ballykinlar Camp.
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920
Autograph album kept in Ballykinlar Camp, 1920, by Mr. Tadhg Lynch, 1st cousin of Liam Lynch. Including entries by Liam Lynch, Joe McGrath, Leo Henderson, Peadar Ó Cearnaigh, Sean Lemass etc. Light brown leather cover.
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Autograph album from Ballykinlar Camp 1920/21. Kept by donor Harold Beehan there and including autographs, poems, inscriptions, sketches and watercolours by fellow internees. Also included are various souvenirs, cuttings and photographs: A BALLYKINLAR 3D TOKEN; a photograph from a newspaper of J....
prison art / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Father Mathew Total Abstinence Medal from Ballykinlar in white metal. Pierced at top and suspended by a hook from a bronze bar (which is slotted for a ribbon). Belonged to Harold Beehan.
prison art / Ballykinlar, 1920/21
Wooden picture frame from Ballykinlar 21 x 15 cm. carved in the Celtic style by donor, Harold Beehan while a prisoner there, and signed by him on the back.
prison art / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921
Prison watercolour, 1921 probably a Ballykinlar item depicting hut, barbed wire fence and soldier in sentry post looking down over all. Unsigned, untitled. Previously the property of Bob Foley.
/ Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921
Prison watercolour, 1921 probably from Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921, by the same artist who painted EW.4560. Depicting gates, fence, roofs of two huts, and a soldier in a sentry box.
prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921
Ballykinlar Camp autograph album, 1921. Kept by Bob Foley there, and including entries by Joe McGrath and D. Corr (perhaps the artist of EW 4560, 4561).