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 / Flood, Frongoch, 1916
Autograph album, Frongoch, 1916. Kept by Sean Flood and including entries by Oscar Traynor, Stephen Jordan, Eamonn Dore, F. de Burca, William O'Brien (DTC), Joe McGrath, including a reference to the Frongoch Police.
internment order / George Lyons, Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch internment order, 1916, served on George Lyons. Later mounted on cloth and entitled 'Certifcate of Patriotism'.
photograph / Markievicz, Liberty Hall, 1917
Countess Markievicz greeting crowds at Liberty Hall on her release from jail, June 1917.
prison art / Harry Kenny, Frongoch, 1916
Portrait of donor, Harry Kenny, by Tom Kane done in North Camp, Frongoch, 1916. Painting.
prison autograph album / Frongoch, 1916
Auotgraph book with drawings and autographs, compiled in Frongoch by Mr. Míchael Ó Ceallaigh after the rising of 1916. With black cover.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Sketch book, drawings, compiled by the late Michael O'Ceallaigh while a prisoner of war at Frongoch etc., after the Rising of Easter Week. With red cover.
internment order / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch internment order, for prisoner Daniel Canny, 70 North Strand Road, Dublin. 1916.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Indian ink drawing of gateway in Frongoch prison, done by G. Purcell. Purcell, a prisoner, gave it to John Lyons in 1916, Lyons gave it to donor". "Seamas O Liatain (?) no.1141 Frongach, 1916" inscribed bottom left. Inscribed on back "from Mr.Lyons, Dublin, Sunday, August 5th, 1917".
poem / Frongach, 1916
Poem,"A Matair, Eire", in English, by W.J. Brennan Whitmore, Frongach, 1916. Handwritten.
prison art / Frongach, 1916
Carving, ex Frongoch Prison. Inkstand made out of the wood of an old whiskey vat in Frongoch Prison, by Volunteer Joseph Duffy, who fought in the G.P.O., 1916. The carving was done with a bent awl. 'Eibhlin' on the side.
prison art / Frongach, 1916
Bone carving ex. Frongach Prison. An ornament carved from a piece of bone by Volunteer Joseph Duffy while a prisoner in Frongoch, 1916. A Celtic triangle.
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Frongoch prison carving. A ring carved from a piece of bone in Frongoch Camp, 1916-1917. With 'IRA' carved. Probably made by Peadar Bracken.
cartoon / Frongoch, South Camp, 1916
Postcard cartoon; sketch or drawing of Frongoch Internment Camp, Bala, Wales. No. 1, South Camp. Artwork by Cathal MacDowell, who was interned in Frongoch from 1916 to 1917. Signed in corner.
cartoon / Frongoch, North Camp, 1916
Postcard cartoon; sketch or drawing of Frongoch Internment Camp, Bala, Wales. No. 2, North Camp. Artwork by Cathal MacDowell, who was interned in Frongoch from 1916 to 1917. Signed in corner.
photograph / Frongoch, 1916
Postcard photograph; Frongoch Internment Camp, Bala, Wales. General view, view from a distance, circa 1916. Photograph by Meredith of Bala, Wales. Printed in Holland.
photograph / Frongoch, 1916
Postcard photograph; Frongoch Internment Camp, Bala, Wales. View from outside camp, circa 1916. Photograph by Meredith of Bala, Wales. Printed in Holland.
cartoon / Frongoch, North Camp, 1916
Postcard cartoon; sketch or drawing of Frongoch Internment Camp, Bala, Wales. No. 2, North Camp. Artwork by Cathal MacDowell, who was interned in Frongoch from 1916 to 1917. Signed in corner.
cartoon / Frongoch, North Camp, 1916
Postcard cartoon; sketch or drawing of Frongoch Internment Camp, Bala, Wales. No. 2, North Camp. Artwork by Cathal MacDowell, who was interned in Frongoch from 1916 to 1917. Signed in corner.