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 / Lewes Gaol, 1916-17
Copy of Dinneen's Smaller Dictionary, the inside pages, front and back inscribed, autographed, with the names and sentences of the men imprisoned in Lewes Jail, 1916 to 1917, after the Rising.
souvenir / Reading Gaol, 1916
Prison mug brought by Darrell Figgis from Reading Jail, 1916, as a souvenir. Ordinary type prisoner's mug. Pottery mug, with white glaze, circular base. Printed in black on one side on a band, 'Prison Commission', a broad arrow within this band. Painted black on the base. Stamped with a crown...
photograph / Lewes Jail, 1916
Postcard photograph of the chapel in Lewes Jail. Back is blank. Titled 'Lewes Jail where I.R.A. prisoners are confined (The Chapel)'. produed from May 1916 to the General Amnesty 1917.
flint chipping / Eoin MacNeill, Lewes Prison, 1917
Flint chipping, said to have been found in garden of Lewes Prison and autographed thus: "Eoin MacNeill, Lewes Prison 1917". Chipping approx. 2.7" by 1.3".
prison art / Mountjoy, 1917
Cross on pyramid made by prisoner in Mountjoy in 1917. Out of a 3" long bullet.
photograph / Lewes Jail
Postcard photograph of Lewes Jail, c. 1916. No. 57303 J.V.
prison art / Reading, 1916
Cartoon, coloured, by Sean Milroy, 1916. Depicts man on a ladder throwing objects from a sack to other characters below. A sign reads 'Toast list - Our Host Sir John Maxwell, our Army and Navy, The Parliamentary Party, The Ladies'. Underneath drawing is 'Aug 25th 1916. Sean T. attains the 21st...
photograph / Stafford Prison, 1916
Irish prisoners in Stafford, England, in 1916. Dr. James Ryan, Murt O'Connell and D. Daly (TD for Kerry).
prison autograph album / Reading Jail, 1916
Autograph album kept by Darrell Figgis in Reading Jail in 1916, containing autographs of Dennis McCullough, Sean T. O'Kelly, Arthur Griffith et al.
prison art / The Casting Out of GBS, 1916
Cartoon by Seán Milroy in Reading Jail on 10 September 1916, depicting Britannia protecting a minute P. de Burca from GBS (George Bernard Shaw), whose books were censored from the prisoners in Reading. 'The Casting Out of GBS'.
envelope / The Out Post, Reading Jail, 1916
Cartoon by Sean Milroy entitled 'The Out Post Reading Jail 25.9.16' depicting 9 figures haunting a prisoner (Milroy?) in his cell. 8.5 x 6 ins. Mounted and glazed in frame 10.8 x 8 ins.
prison pottery / Reading Jail, 1916
Salt cellar from Reading Jail. 2.7" high x 2.9 ins. d. incl. lid. Brown leadless glaze pottery with PRISON COMMISSION stamped on outside of lid and the Crown over PC over O stamped inside the lid and on the bottom of the cellar. With lid. Probably 1916. '1493' handwritten on the base.
souvenir / Reading Jail, 1916
Fork brought from Reading Jail, 1916, as a souvenir. Metal, 7.5 inches in overall length, stamped with DON, L, S, BP and with the numbers 7 over 16.
prison mug / Reading Jail, 1916
Mug from Reading Jail, 1916 4.5 ins. high, without handle, waisted or with incurved sides and with raised rim of .5 ins. deep at top and bottom. Top diam. 4 ins. Bottom Diam. 4.7 ins. Stamped with the Broad Arrow within a band with the words PRISON COMMISSION around above. Stamped on bottom with...
prison autograph album / John Mitchel's History of Ireland, Dartmoor Prison
Book from Dartmoor : John Mitchel's History of Ireland with autographs and details of about 50 of the Republican prisoners (each signing on the page approximating to their convict no.) including de Valera, MacNeill, Cosgrave, Colm O Gaora, Brian Molloy, Fionan Lynch, Peadar Clancy, Frank Fahy et al.
prison label / Thomas Ashe, Lewes Prison, 1917
Lewes Prison Label, addressed to "Mr. T. Ashe, Lispole Co. Kerry" for a registered parcel sent on 21 June 1917. Thomas Ashe.
resource / Stafford Jail, 1916
Photostat copy of an autograph book (14 pages). Made by the prisoners of Stafford Jail, 1916.
postcard / Lewes Jail, 1916
Greeting card with poem "The Toast" composed by J. Etchingham in Lewes Jail. Depicting the Irish tricolour flag. Published by permission S O h-E. In commemoration of Easter 1916.
poem / Lewes Jail, 1917
Lewes Jail. "Duanaire na Macaomh", a collection of Irish poetry edited by Tomás Ó Flannghaile and autographed by 121 Irish Prisoners in Lewes Jail in May 1917. All the names are in Irish and they are entered on the pages which corresponded to their prison numbers. In addition to the names and...