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photograph / James O'Connor
Photograph of James O'Connor, executed with five others on 19 December 1922 at Curragh Internment Camp. Full case, half length.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing one of the coffins being borne by six comrades ahead of a group of mourners.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing one of the tricolour bedecked coffins being borne on comrades shoulders between rows of a guard of honour.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing one of the coffins arriving near opened grave with mourners and officiating clergy foregathered.
dolours beads / Rory O'Connor, 1922
Rory O'Connor's dolours beads with note from a nun (un-named) to donor's mother saying what they were and asking that they be prayed with daily 'for his immortal soul. When it was given to me I was asked to fulfill this request'. Beads and note presented in a small paper box, also enclosed is a...
typescript / Liam Mellows' Last Letter, copy
With contemporary typed transcript of Liam Mellows last letter to his mother before execution, 8 December 1922. Copy of the original EW.2378
photograph / Funeral, Republican, 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922. Full plate showing five of the hearses arriving at cemetry with large group of sympathisers all round.
letter / Frank Cunnane , 1923
Last letter of Frank Cunnane 2 pages written to his mother from Galway Jail, 10 April 1923, on the eve of his execution.
memorial card / O'Connor, Mellows, Barrett, McKelvey, 1922
Memorial card for Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows, Richard Barrett and Joseph McKelvey, executed 8 December 1922. ‘Pro Patria Mortuorum in Carcere / Mountjoy’, 8th December 1922 Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and...
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922 showing 13 coffins of executed Republicans lying in state in the Hardwicke Hall. One man, wearing a hat, at attention with his back to an improvised altar. Full plate.
photograph / Liam Mellows' reinterment, 1924
Photograph of a group at a graveside - the reinterment of Liam Mellows at Castletown, Co. Wexford, about November 1924. In the centre of the group is Barney Mellows, Joe Reynolds and Fr. O'Keefe.
photograph / Jordan Family Headstone, Castletown, 1924
Photograph of the Jordan Family Headstone in Castletown Cemetry, before Liam Mellows' headstone was erected. c. 1924. The Jordon's were the maternal grandparents of Liam Mellows.
photograph / Joe Reynolds, Castletown, 1924
Photograph of Joe Reynolds and another at Liam Mellow's grave at Castletown, Co. Wexford, before the new headstone erected. 1924.
photograph / Funeral, Republican, November 1922
Republican funeral scene November 1922 showing about a dozen horse drawn hearses in procession along O'Connell Street. Full plate.
last letter / Paddy Mangan, 1922
Manuscript copy of the last letter of Paddy Mangan, written Dec. 18, 1922 from Hare Park Prison, Curragh to his father and mother, before his execution. One page.
prison art / Mountjoy Jail, 1922
Wooden chessman, handcarved. First piece of a set started by Liam Mellows in Mountjoy Jail, its completion interrupted by his execution on 8 December 1922.
prison spoon / Mountjoy, 1922
Carved horn spoon. Mementoes of Liam Mellows, Rory O'Connor, Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett, executed in Mountjoy, 1922.
prayer book / 'The Imitation of Christ', Liam Mellows, Mountjoy, 1922
Liam Mellow's prayer book. A 608 pp. Cullen of Dublin edition of 'The Imitation of Christ' with a small photograph of Mellows attached to one of the front blanks, enclosing a memorial card to Mellows (EW.5450a), and with the following manuscript note on one blank page inside front "Liam Mellows had...memorial card / 'The Imitation of Christ', Liam Mellows, Mountjoy, 1922
Memorial card of Liam Mellows, executed in Mountjoy Jail, 8th December, 1922. Found in the pages of a religious book belonging to Liam Mellows - 'The Imitation of Christ' (EW.5450).