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.
photograph / Mountjoy Hunger Strike, 1920
(Cashman 128) Hunger Strike 1920. Photograph of a tank outside Mountjoy Jail during the hunger strike, 1920.
1916 Proclamation / 1916 Proclamation
An original Proclamation. Printed Easter Week 1916. Proclamation is endorsed by the original printers: M.J. Molloy, Compositor, Liam O'Briain, Compositor, Christopher Brady, Printer. On the back are the signatures of eleven of the prisoners in Mountjoy dated 19th May 1916. The printing press of the...
album / Mountjoy Jail, 1917
Autograph book. Owned by Fionnán Lynch, Capt. F. Co., Batt. I, Dublin, 1916. Signatures collected in Mountjoy Jail in 1917. As noted in the book, Lynch was imprisoned in Richmond Barracks, Kilmainham, Mountjoy, Portland, Lewes and Pentonville in 1916, and in Caherciveen Barracks, Cork Detention...
photograph / Hunger Strike, 1920
1920 Hunger Strike. 13" x 19". Fr. Albert and a large crowd watching ambulance men removing a prisoner on a stretcher having brought him from Mountjoy to the Mater.
photograph / Thomas Whelan, 1921
Photograph. Mounted on card. Showing Thomas Whelan walking between a prison guard and an army guard. Mountjoy, 1921.
prison autograph album / Mountjoy Hunger Strikes, 1917
A prison autograph album containing the autographs of the Mountjoy Hunger Strikes, 1917. All entries are dated between October 19th 1917 to October 27 1917. The entries are mostly those of County Clare's representatives in Mountjoy. Among the entries are those of Austin Stack, Eamon O Duibhir...
prison art / Mountjoy Jail, 1922
Wooden chessman, handcarved. First piece of a set started by Liam Mellows in Mountjoy Jail, its completion interrupted by his execution on 8 December 1922.
prison spoon / Mountjoy, 1922
Carved horn spoon. Mementoes of Liam Mellows, Rory O'Connor, Joseph McKelvey and Richard Barrett, executed in Mountjoy, 1922.
card / Kevin Barry, Mountjoy, 1920
Portion of a letter to Kevin Barry. Portions of a letter card bearing the address of Gerrard Barry Esq., Mountjoy Prision, Dublin. The portions bear the post mark of Navan dated the 12th October 1920 and the initials of the Governor of the Prison, dated 13.10.'20. They were picked up from the floor...
portrait photograph / Frank Flood
Photographic portrait of Francis X Flood, (Frank Flood), 1st Lieutenant, A.S.U., Dublin Brigade, Irish Volunteers, born Dublin, 1901, executed Mountjoy Jail, March 14, 1921. Front face, head and shoulders.
cell card / Frank Flood, Mountjoy, 1921
Printed cell card of Frank Flood. Committed to Mountjoy Prison, February 16, 1921. Executed there in 1921. Printed card of regulation form; particulars in ink.
photograph / Thomas Whelan, Mountjoy Jail, 1921
Photograph of Thomas Whelan being led by two British Army officers in Mountjoy Jail. Said to have been taken when being led to his execution, 14 March 1921.
photograph / Mountjoy Prison, March 1921
Photograph taken outside Mountjoy Prison, 13 March 1921. Shows women carrying banner inscribed 'England Executes / Prisoners of War'. 7.5 inches by c.5.5 inches.
photograph / Mountjoy Hunger Strikers, 1920
Photograph of the Mountjoy hunger strikers, 1920. 34 men in 4 rows. 6.6" by 4.8". Copy of original photograph.
photograph / Mountjoy Hunger Strikers, 1919
Photograph of the Mountjoy Hunger Strikers October 1919. 30 men in four rows. 6.6 ins. x 4.8 ins. '1919' printed on original, but it is most likely the hunger strike of 1920.
photograph / Thomas Whelan, 1921
Photograph of Thomas Whelan and his two auxilliary guards. Taken the day before his execution (14 March 1921).
prayer book / 'The Imitation of Christ', Liam Mellows, Mountjoy, 1922
Liam Mellow's prayer book. A 608 pp. Cullen of Dublin edition of 'The Imitation of Christ' with a small photograph of Mellows attached to one of the front blanks, enclosing a memorial card to Mellows (EW.5450a), and with the following manuscript note on one blank page inside front "Liam Mellows had...memorial card / 'The Imitation of Christ', Liam Mellows, Mountjoy, 1922
Memorial card of Liam Mellows, executed in Mountjoy Jail, 8th December, 1922. Found in the pages of a religious book belonging to Liam Mellows - 'The Imitation of Christ' (EW.5450).
miniature / Kevin Barry
Miniature: Kevin Barry. By A.F. Levins, on ivory, painted from a newspaper photograph. Barry was executed in Mountjoy Prison in 1920.