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 / Lewes Gaol, 1916-17
Copy of Dinneen's Smaller Dictionary, the inside pages, front and back inscribed, autographed, with the names and sentences of the men imprisoned in Lewes Jail, 1916 to 1917, after the Rising.
photograph / Lewes Jail, 1916
Postcard photograph of the chapel in Lewes Jail. Back is blank. Titled 'Lewes Jail where I.R.A. prisoners are confined (The Chapel)'. produed from May 1916 to the General Amnesty 1917.
flint chipping / Eoin MacNeill, Lewes Prison, 1917
Flint chipping, said to have been found in garden of Lewes Prison and autographed thus: "Eoin MacNeill, Lewes Prison 1917". Chipping approx. 2.7" by 1.3".
prison label / Thomas Ashe, Lewes Prison, 1917
Lewes Prison Label, addressed to "Mr. T. Ashe, Lispole Co. Kerry" for a registered parcel sent on 21 June 1917. Thomas Ashe.
postcard / Lewes Jail, 1916
Greeting card with poem "The Toast" composed by J. Etchingham in Lewes Jail. Depicting the Irish tricolour flag. Published by permission S O h-E. In commemoration of Easter 1916.
poem / Lewes Jail, 1917
Lewes Jail. "Duanaire na Macaomh", a collection of Irish poetry edited by Tomás Ó Flannghaile and autographed by 121 Irish Prisoners in Lewes Jail in May 1917. All the names are in Irish and they are entered on the pages which corresponded to their prison numbers. In addition to the names and...
prison autograph album / Lewes Prison, 1916
Lewes Prison. Copy of the book "Toraidheacht na bFíreun ar Lorg Chríosta" (Imitation of Christ), containing inscriptions from Lewes Prison detainees, on the page number equivalent to their prison number. After 1916 Rising. Owned by Robert Brennan, prison number Q103.
prison cell card / Patrick Flanagan, Lewes Prison, 1916
Cell card. Lewes Prison, 1916. Stiff paste board, circa 5" by 3", redbrick in colour. On one side: ruled printed form - q201/M - other: name Patrick Flanagan, Written.
handbill / Strike in Lewes Jail, 1917
Leaflet, 'Strike in Lewes Jail'. Re the strike of Irish prisoners in Lewes Jail, 1917. Mounted on card.
prison autograph album / Lewes Gaol, 1916
Autograph book, Lewes Gaol, 1916. Autographs compiled by Thomas Bevan while a prisoner in Lewes Gaol 1916, containing names of all sentenced men other than those executed. Book and case made by Mrs Brennan, orderly to the Chaplin; Mr. Bevan was choirmaster. Lists Portland and Dartmoor May - Dec...
photograph / Lewes Jail
Postcard photograph; Lewes Jail, England, view of exterior. Lewes Jail, where I.R.A. Prisoners are confined (exterior).
convict cap / J.J. Brennan, 1916
Prison cap worn by J.J. Brennan, of D. Coy. 1st Battalion, Dublin, in Lewes and Portland Jails after the 1916 Rising. He was sentenced to death in 1916. His sentence was commuted. Prison number stitched onto side 'Q 161'.
convict cap / Thomas Ashe, 1917, Portland and Lewes
The prison cap worn by Thomas Ashe in Portland and Lewes Jail, 1917. Regulation pattern fawn felt cap, red six-pointed star in front and on black patch on left side "q102".
photograph / Fleming Family
Postcard photograph showing Lewes Prison, England. On the reverse is written 'Lewes Prison, presented by the Prison R.C. Chaplain Reverand A.J. O'Loughlin, to Miceal Mac Pleamonn q214, on his release (Michael Fleming). Found within a copy of a prayer book, in Irish, 'Torsaidheacht air Lorg...
greeting card / St. Patrick Day, Lewes 1917
Greeting card for St. Patrick's Day, ‘Greet St. Patrick’s Morn’, showing Erin, an Irish harp, a celtic cross all surrounded by shamrock. Sent to Michael Fleming in Lewes Prison March 1917, from his son John, and Jim Lynch. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father...
Christmas card / Fleming Family / Lewes 1917
Chrsitmas card, 'Lewes' in neo-celtic lettering. Christmas 1917. From Jack Reid (Sean Reid), prisoner number q129, to Michael Fleming. Sinn Fein Series, printed in Dublin. Part of a collection of material relating to the Fleming family, the father Michael Fleming and his sons Patrick, Thomas and...
photograph / Fleming Family / Lewes Chapel
Postcard photograph showing the chapel in Lewes Prison, England. On the reverse is written 'Alter in out little chapel, Lewes Prison, presented by the Prison R.C. Chaplain Reverand A.J. O'Loughlin, to Miceal Mac Pleamonn q214. In this little chapel 120 prisoners (Irishmen) received the Blessed...
letter / Lewes Prison, 1917
Letter written to Michael Fleming in Lewes Prison, dated 20 March 1917. Written back and front on standard issue prison letter sheet. 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...