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.
 
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 / Return of the I.R.A. Prisoners, June 1917
Postcard photograph, depicting Countess Markievicz arriving at Liberty Hall, Dublin. Return of the I.R.A. Prisoners, June 1917.
 
photograph / Prisoners marching to the North Wall,, 1916
(Cashman 13) 1916 Rising. Photograph of Irish prisoners being escorted to North Wall, Easter, 1916.
 
prison art / Frongoch Camp, 1916
Pencil sketch of a prisoner, Frongoch, 1916, by Cathal MacDubhghaill. Dated 18 October 1916.
 
prison art / Frongach, 1916
Macrame bag, green with the letter M on front. Contains Christmas note inside. Frongach, Christmas 1916. From a father to his daughter Muirin. Prison craftwork.
 
prison autograph album / Peter C. McPartlin, Frongoch Camp, 1916
Autograph book, Peter C. McPartlin, Frongach 1916. Verse and illustrations.
 
internment order / Edward Martin, Frongoch, 1916
Frongach internment order for Edward Martin of St. Mary's Terrace, Athlone, post 1916 Rising.
 
prison art / C. MacDongal, Frongach 1916
Sketch, pencil drawing of C. MacDongal, by W. Murray, 20 October 1916, in Frongach Internment Camp.
 
prisoner list / female prisoners, 1916
List of female prisoners, 1916, on Government notepaper, including names, ages and other biographical details. Included are Josephine Plunkett, 58, 26 Upr Fitzgibbon Street; Kathleen Lynn, 42, 9 Belgrave Road; Winifred Carney, 28, 43 Belvidere Pl. Typist National Health...
 
sketch book / Aylesbury Prison, 1916
Sketch book / prison journal of Countess Markievicz whilst in Aylesbury Prison, 1916. Hardback prison issue notebook of approx. 205 pages, containing sketches made by Constance Markievicz while in Aylesbury Prison - Female Convict Prison. Also poetry by Eva Gore-Booth. Themes of religion, freedom...
 
photograph / Arthur Griffith and Children
Photograph of Arthur Griffith walking up a garden pathway toward a house with his two children, Ita and Nevin, on his release from prison. Undated. Griffth was imprisoned in 1916, Gloucester Jail in 1919 and Mountjoy Prison in 1921.
 
prison art / Derby Prison, 1916
Tablemat made by Stephen Pollard in Derby Prison, 1916. 24 by 13 ins. embroidered with the words DERBY PRISON / DUBLIN C.COY / IRA / EASTER XVI picked out on a background of mostly green, white and orange.
 
prison art / Wandsworth Jail, 1916
Egg spoon, wood, made in Wandsworth Jail, 1916, by the donor Patrick Ronan with a pen knife.
 
prisoner list / Lewes Jail, 1916-17
"Lewes Jail. Names, sentences and registers of Irish prisoners". A list of signatures of prisoners sentenced after 1916 Rising, with their sentences and prison numbers. With accompanying information - In 1917 while the men sentenced to penal servitude by the Courts Martial in Dublin in 1916 were...
 
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
 
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
 
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
 
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...
 
prison art / Wandsworth, 1916
One of 6 various Irish emblems, hand-made, prisoner art/craft, one embroidered emblem of green flag with gold maid of Erin harp, "Ireland" inscribed underneath, 3 harps, one harp with shamrock in the centre, on blue, red and yellow rosette. REG - 6 Irish emblems (harps etc of ribbon) sent by...