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.
letter / Fleming Family
Letter, to Mrs Fleming from C. MacCarthy at 12 County Grove, Camberwell, London, dated 10 April 1917. Giving Mrs Fleming the news that he saw her husband Michael in Lewes Prison the previous day and he is well. Also that he is teaching the boys Irish, some detail of daily life in Lewes, and...
postcard cartoon / 'To House Hunters', 1916 - 1917
Postcard cartoon, showing a prisoner inside the yard of a British Prison. The verse underneath reads 'To House Hunters, why pay rent when you can live in a substantial residence for nothing? Terms long or short. Security guaranteed'. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family,...
letter / Leo Fleming, 1916 - 1917
Letter, probably written by the Reverand Thomas Leo Fleming, instructing how to send letters to Michael Fleming at Dartmoor Prison and his nephew Michael at Wornwood Scrubs, with addresses of both. 1916 to 1917. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael...
letter / Thomas Leo Fleming, 1916-1917
Partial letter, written by Reverand Thomas Leo Fleming re his brother and nephew, Michael Fleming and son Michael, in prison, transferred from Mountjoy, 1916 to 1917. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph...
letter / Michael Fleming, 1916 - 1917
Partial letter, probably written by Michael Fleming during his internment after the 1916 Rising Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish Volunteers of Clarenbridge, Oranmore, Co. Galway, who...letter / Christopher Ennis, 1916-21
Letter to Christopher, Kit, interned in Frongoch, from his brother Ned, dated 19 July 1916. Mentions the food parcel he previously sent to Knutsford Prison. Part of a collection of material relating to the service of Christopher Ennis, or Kit Ennis, Irish Volunteers, F. Company, 2nd Battalion,...
prison autograph album / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Autograph album of Diarmuid Puirseal, no. 370, Frongoch Internment Camp, Wales, 1916. With alphabetical listing of prisoners, with numbers and addresses. Dated 24 December 1916.prison diary / Frongoch, 1916
Prison diary of Diarmuid Puirseal, no. 370, Frongoch Internment Camp, Wales, 1916. Notebook number 1, wtritten in shorthand.prison diary / Frongoch, 1916
Prison diary of Diarmuid Puirseal, no. 370, Frongoch Internment Camp, Wales, 1916. Notebook number 2, written in shorthand. Dated 17th, 1916.phrasebook / The Phonographic Phrase Book, Frongoch, 1916
Copy of The Phonographic Phrase Book, by Isaac Pitman. Belonged of Diarmuid Puirseal, no. 370, Frongoch Internment Camp, Wales, 1916. In reference to his prison diaries, written in shorthand. Inscribed by Puirseal, dated 22 May 1910.
poem / 1916
Verse written by Edward McCabe on lengths of fabric stitched together from the lining of his uniform, while interned at Frongoch, 1916.
internment order / Frongoch, 1916
Internment order committing the donor Francis O'Flannagan as a prisoner to Frongoch, 1916. Typescript. 1p. Pasted on sheet of cloth.
altar cloth / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch Altar Cloth. Piece of purple linen which was used as the frontispiece or as a drapery at the back of the Altar in Frongoch Camp in 1916. Large cross in linen appliqued in the centre. Measures 40 inches by 88 inches.
internment order / Frongoch, Robert Holland, 1916
Internment order under regulation 14B of the Defence of the Realm Act, served on Robert Holland in 1916. Notice regarding the order and conditions under which appeal may be made. One page, type duplicated, particulars typed in. No date, but 1916. For internment in Frongoch.
letter / Ireland's right to Independence, 1917
Sheet of linen, 16 inches by 14 inches, inscribed with a message urging Ireland's right to Independence, signed by 26 political prisoners released in 1917 and addressed to the President and Congress of the United States. Dated Dublin, June 18, 1917. The sheet was linen handkerchief starched stiff...
mass cloth / Richmond Barracks, 1916
Mass cloth from Richmond Barracks, 1916. White damask table cloth, Marked in indelible pencil or marking ink in corner "D Murphy /C.Fr." Used to cover the table on which Mass was celebrated in Richmond Barracks in 1916.
prison autograph album / Frongoch, 1916
Autograph book from Frongoch Camp, 1916. Listing members of the Camp General Council and Executive Committee. Appears to have been kept by Edward Francis Martin of St. Mary's Terrace, Athlone. Secretary to the General and Executive Councils of the Irish Prisoners of War, Frongoch Camp, Wales,...
photograph / Altar, Frongoch, 1916
Photograph of altar in Frongoch Internment Camp, 1916.
prison autograph album / Frongoch, 1916
Autograph album, 1916, kept by Seán Ó Maidin in Frongoch Internment Camp, Frongoch, Wales.