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.
postcard photograph / Sean Reid,Dartmoor 1916 - 1917
Postcard photograph, of Jack Reid (Sean Reid), prisoner number q129, in his prison cap. Dartmoor Prison, 1916 to 1917. Sent by Reid to Michael Fleming. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and Joseph Fleming, Irish...
letter / Lewes Prison, 1917
Letter from Lewes Prison, 14 June 1917, informing recipient that his father is still here at present, and in good health, but letters suspended. From the Governor of Lewes Prison. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick,...
belt / Fleming Family
Sam Browne belt, brown leather. No insignia. Shoulder strap missing. 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 participated in the 1916...
prison autograph album / Knutford & Frongoch, 1916
Autograph album of Miss N. MacGeehin, of 4 Adelphi Terrace, Salford (?). Knutford Prison and Frongoch, 1916. Also contains sigatures dated 1917.
letter / Stafford Prison, 1916
Letter, handwritten, of Michael Collins, written from Stafford Prison, 24 June 1916. To Mollie. Referring to personal items and his impending transfer to Frongoch. 4 pages.
letter / Lewes Jail, 1917
Letter of Thomas Ashe to Miss M. Adrien, no sender's address, but written from Lewes Jail (Miss Adrien's information), dated February 12, 1917. Sent to Miss Adrien at the time by Miss Nora Ashe, sister of Thomas Ashe. Personal references and oblique references to situation. Written on both sides of...
resource / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch autograph album, 1916. Xeroxprint of album which belonged to Peter C. McPartlin and which carries notes from Frongoch and Stafford including entries by Brian Ó hUigínn, Seán Hales, W.J. Brennan-Whitmore, and Stephan Jordan. Other names are blurred.
prison art / Frongoch , 1916
Frongoch prisoner's work. Small macramé bag made by Domhnall Ua Buachalla of Maynooth during his internment in Frongoch, 1916. Purple in colour.
prison food / Knutsford Gaol, 1916
Piece of prison bread distributed in Knutsford Gaol to Irish prisoners after the 1916 Rising. Saved by T. Coleman. Piece of wheaten bread, dried. 'Knutsford 1916' written on one side.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Prison craftwork, Frongoch. Macramé bag made by Peter Coates, Irish Citizen Army, Dublin. Cream in colour.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch prisoner's work. Cross carved from a meat bone by Thomas O'Donohoe of the Irish Cirizen Army, Dublin, when a prisoner of war at Frongoch 1916. Stand made by him at a later date.
internment order / Patrick J. Doyle, Frongoch, 1916
Internment order, served on the lender Dr Patrick J. Doyle while a prisoner in Knutsford Prison prior to his removal to Frongoch, 1916.
internment order / Patrick Fleming, 1916
Internment order, for the internment of Patrick Fleming, number 181146, of Clarenbridge, Co. Galway, in Frongoch, 1916. 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,...
pipe bowl / German, Frongoch, 1916
Pipe bowl of turned wood, diam. 1.4", height 2.8". Used by a German prisoner in Frongoch Prison Camp prior to occupation by Irish prisoners. Found by Patrick Ronan in 1916 and taken away by him.
souvenir / Frongoch, 1916
Rugby football used by the prisoners to play Gaelic football in Frongoch, 1916. Brought out of the camp on their release in December 1916. It originally bore the inscription "1916 Frongoch", marks remain where this was defaced by some ladies in whose possession it was during the War of...
prison art / In Memory or Capt. Séan Connolly Killed 1916
Memento or memorial of Séan Connolly carved in bone in Frongoch 1916. 14 inches high, carved in the shape of an openwork monstrance with the legend IN MEMORY/OF/CAPT. SÉAN/CONNOLLY/KILLED 1916 cut into the stand. In the centre an abstract depiction of the Trinity, around in the openwork a crown of...
coat / Dómhnall Ó Buachalla, 1916
Jacket belonging to Dómhnall Ó Buachalla. Irish made. Worn by Ó Buachalla during Easter Week and while interned in Frongoch afterwards, 1916. With a bullet hole through the left shoulder, front and back, received at the end of Easter Week in the Drumcondra area.
notice / Patrick O'Hanlon, Frongoch Camp, 1916
Frongoch Detention Notice, 1916. Intent to intern Patrick O'Hanlon of 31 Upper Wellington Street, Dublin, since "he is of hostile associations" and a member of the Irish Volunteers. Quarto duplicated sheet with name, address and file numbers typed in - 12570 and 316702.
memorandum / Magazine Fort Raid, 1916
1916 Rising, prisoners in Kilmainham. Memorandum document from R.E. Campbell 2 St. 2K. E.H. Phoenix Park Magazine to W.S. Lennon, Major, Commandant Kilmainham, Detention Barracks, dated 2 May 1916. Re the identification of the men responsible for the Magazine Fort Raid.