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 / 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.
 
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.
 
envelope / Frongoch, 1916
Envelope addressed to William O'Brien in Frongoch, 1916. With "Opened by Censor" label affixed to the back.
 
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.