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.
Christmas card / Markievicz, Clarke, Partridge, 1918
A Christmas card sent from Holloway Jail by Countess de Markievicz and (Senator) Mrs. Kathleen Clarke to Mrs. M. Partridge. Christmas 1918.
Christmas card / Holloway Jail, 1918
Christmas card from Holloway Jail, 1918. Card sent to Mrs. Mallin from Constance Markievicz and Kathleen Clark. Card addressed to the Phillips Family. Printed by the Irish Art Series, The Gaelic Press, Dublin. No. 263.
prison art / Holloway Gaol, 1918
A cigarette box, decorated by Countess in Holloway Gaol, December 1918. Mrs Jenny Wyse-Power sent her a box of Irish grown/Ballyowen, Wexford cigarettes at Christmas. Countess decorated the plain grey cardboard box and returned it. Decorated with a newspaper print of her own portrait in Irish...
prison art / Maud Gonne MacBride
Watercolour painting of Maud Gonne MacBride, by Countess Constance de Markievicz.. Seated in a prison cell, in mourning dress. Titled 'Mrs Gonne MacBride' and signed. Holloway, 1918.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1919. Landscape, with river.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918. Man on horse, leading another.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1919. Seascape, sunset.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail July 1919. Dying soldier, with woman ministering to him.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail, July 1918. Girl driving sheep.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, July 1919. Seascape, evening.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Illuminated page. Countess Markievicz, Holloway Jail, January 1919. Watercolour illumination of James Connolly's proclamation in calligraphy. Two creatures, inspired by those in Early Christian manuscripts, are shown devouring the Union Jack.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Sea and land, trees, mountains.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Rainbow.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, 1918. Twilight, Child, with fairy woman enticing it.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Peasant woman sewing, child in cradle beside hearth.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, January 1919. Land and seascape.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail June 1918. Peasant riding horse with arm round woman's neck, walking.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Watercolour or colour picture painted at Holloway Jail, August 1919. Fishermen dragging the nets on to the shore.
prison art / Holloway Jail, 1918-1919
Countess Markievicz. Watercolour painted at Holloway Jail September 1918. Female warrior, carrying shield, with spear aloft.