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 art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp. Pencil sketch, dated 17 October 1916, of bearded prisoner (head and shoulders) by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Mounted on cardboard, 9" by 6".
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp. Pencil sketch, dated 17 October 1916, of prisoner (head and shoulders) by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Mounted on cardboard 9" by 6.8".
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp. Pencil sketch, head only, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 7.5" by 5.5".
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketches by Cathal MacDubhghaill, on paper 5.4" by 7.4". On one side a man stooped with hat reading. On the other side three head and shoulder sketches - one of man with army cap, spectacles and moustache, the other two are the left and right profiles of a...
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoners in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17 Pencil sketches by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 5.4" by 7.4". Three sketches on one side, one of a man with a cap, another is the head of a bearded man and the third is a longer sketch of the latter with a hat on his head. On the other side is a sketch of the...
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Sketch of Searlas O Donnaille seated in woman's clothes during an entertainment in the camp, on paper 5.4" by 7.4". Dated 01 November 1916. By Cathal MacDubhghaill.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch of man with a cap seated to left with background lightly sketched in on paper 5.4" by 7.4". By Cathal MacDubhghaill.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch by Cathal MacDubhghaill of one man standing, cutting the hair of another man kneeling; on paper 5.4" by 7.4". Two pages ex sketchbook torn out, only one side used.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 7.1" by 9.8", of head and shoulders of a man in a hat.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Sentry in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketch by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 8"x 9". Uniformed man seated and dozing, dated 5 November 1916.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Prisoner and Warder in Frongoch Camp, 1916-17. Pencil sketches by Cathal MacDubhghaill. On paper 11" by 7.5". Head and shoulders of bareheaded man on one side. On the other three sketches of warder with peaked cap and moustache.
prison autograph album / Frongoch, 1916
Autograph album kept in Frongoch Internment Camp in 1916. Includes entries from Brian Ó hUiginn, M.J. O'Connor, J.J. Scollan, Domhnall Ó Buachalla, Michael Mac Stáin, Garry Holohan, Sean McLoughlin, Eamonn T. Dore, Proinsias Ó Fathaigh, Seamus Ua Tallamhain, Garróid Ó Beoláin, Oscar Traynor etc.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Frongoch Camp, water colour by Cathal MacDubhghaill showing a building with a tall chimney, a sentry and many prisoners. 1916 - 1917
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Frongoch Camp, water colour painting by Cathal MacDubhghaill showing a sentry post, guarded by an armed soldier. Scene cloaked in mist. 1916-1917.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Watercolour of a building in Frongoch Internment Camp, painted by Cathal MacDubhghaill while a prisoner there, 1916. Showing prisoners and their trestle beds in the camp.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch prisoner's craft work. Macrame work bag made by Domhnall Ua Buachalla when he was interned in Frongoch, 1916.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch Prisoner's Work. Macramé bag made by Domhnall Ua Buachalla while a prisoner in Frongoch, 1916
crios / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch Prisoner's Work. Macrame crios or belt made by Domhnall Ua Buachalla in Frongoch Internment Camp, 1916. With bone centrepiece with 'Frongoch' carved. With three bells.
letter / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Frongoch letter, dated 21 December 1916, from Henry Kenny in Hut 17, to his cousin Hubert with sketch of tricolour at top, with 'A Merry Xmas to All from Frongoch'.