Historical Collections Online

 

prison art / Ballykinlar, 1921

Ballykinlar Camp, handkerchief. Handkerchief decorated with Harp and Shamrocks in Ballykinlar Camp, Co. Down, April 1921. The artist was J. Bracken, Drumcondra, Dublin. Handkerchief was used as a sideline flag during a football match between two teams of prisoners one of which was known as "The...

 

prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-1921

A macrame work tea-cosy made by an internee in Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921.

 

prison art / Countess Markievicz, Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-1921

Countess Markievicz, coloured reproduction of painting of. The original by B. Szankowski, Paris 1901, is in the Municipal Gallery. This reproduction is in a frame which was made by an internee in Ballykinlar Camp.

 

prison art / Billy Reilly, Ballykinlar Camp, 1920 - 1921

Ballykinlar, Seán Milroy sketch. Water colour sketch of Commandant Billy Reilly by Sean Milroy in Ballykinlar Camp, 1920-1921.

 

prison art / Ballykinlar, 1921

Prisioner's work from Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1921. Harp, made form the shoulder blade of a cow, from the stock pot of Hut 21, G.Block, No.2 Camp, Ballykinlar. Tools used were broken bladed pocket-knife and two horse shoe nails (no name of maker, unless perhaps made by the lender). Carved...

 

prison art / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920 - 1921

Ballykinlar Camp prisoner's work. - Macrame-bag, yellow thread; rectangular, c. 4.5" x 3.5". Made by the prisoner who made (EW.252a) a bone harp. His "loom" was a board 14" x 7", salvaged from a soap box in the camp laundry and fitted with four wire nails.

 

prison art / Ballykinlar, 1920/21

A bag, made by a prisoner of Ballykinlar Internment Camp. Macramé; dark blue thread; rectangular; c.8" by 6".

 

photograph / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920-1921

Photograph taken at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, of a group of internees outside Hut 2. 1920-1921.

 

currency / Ballykinlar Camp, 1920/21

Ballykinlar token. Paper, faced linen. Circular, diam. c. 2.2 inches, printed: obv. (black and red) - "Gaedhil fé ghlas i mBaile-Coinnleóra. Campa a dó. 3d." Rev. (green and red) - "Printers, O'Loughlin, Murphy & Boland, Ltd., Upper Dorset Street, Dublin. Wholesale Stationers and General Merchants".

 

photograph / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1921

Full plate photograph of prisoners at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, about 1921, showing 24 men in four rows at a junction of two corrugated iron sheds.

 

photograph / Ballykinlar Orchestra, 1920

Full plate photograph of prisoners at Ballykinlar Orchestra, 1920, showing 23 men in four rows, most of them with violins. Martin Walton is the bearded man standing on right.

 

photograph / Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920

Full plate photograph of prisoners at Ballykinlar Internment Camp, 1920, showing 34 men in four rows. The man on the right of the second row from the top is Joe McGrath. Taken in the open.

 

photograph / Kit Mullan, Ballykinlar

Studio photograph of Kit Mullan, the Lord Mayor of Ballykinlar. Full plate photograph, showing him seated in wooden armchair dressed in his 'mayoral robes'.

 

prison autograph album / Ballykinlar Camp, 1921

Autograph book, Ballykinlar Camp, No. 2 Camp, 1921. Includes artwork by Sean Milroy at Hut 10, G Coy, and Micheal O Riada, Charlie Saurin, Patrick Killian, B.Ryan, William Lennon-Wilson, rhyming verse and a list of prisoners on the run in October 1921.

 

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.