Historical Collections Online

 

photograph / Richmond Barracks, 1877

Photograph of military scene, 1877. A fine oval photograph of group entitled "Richmond Barracks Dublin 1877" with soldiers outside a barracks building, some sitting on a side car and some on a seat holding cricket bats.

 

mass cloth / Richmond Barracks, 1916

Mass cloth from Richmond Barracks, 1916. White damask table cloth, Marked in indelible pencil or marking ink in corner "D Murphy /C.Fr." Used to cover the table on which Mass was celebrated in Richmond Barracks in 1916.

 

souvenir / Noel Lemass

Noel Lemass memento. A German coin (10 pfennig, 1900). It was given to Mr C. G. Seavers by Noel Lemass when they both shared the same cell in Richmond Barracks, 1916. Noel Lemass on the same occasion carved both names on a 1 1b. Bully beef tin which he gave to donor.

 

relic / Séan Mac Diarmada, 1916

Séan Mac Diarmada's pocket watch. Given to Barney Mellows by Séan Mac Diarmada in Room 46 of Richmond Barracks before his execution on 8 May 1916. Inscribed afterwards with 'VIII/V/1916'.

 

poster / Plunkett, Joseph, George and John

Poster photograph of Count Plunkett's sons George and John at Richmond Military Barracks with British troops, and the subtitle "Condemned" (1916 Rising). Bottom text tells of the condemning of the Plunketts to death for their part in the Sinn Fein Rising, though only Joseph was executed, the others...

 

prison biscuit / Frank Murray, Fianna Éireann, 1916

The Prisoners Biscuit, 1916. A biscuit of the kind given to prisoners in the Royal Dublin Society grounds in Ballsbridge and at Richmond Barracks, Easter 1916. The owner writes "they were so very hard that few of us could eat them". Given to Frank Murray at Richmond Barracks. At the time, he was...