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coat / Roger Casement, Congo

Roger Casement's báinin jacket. He is seen wearing it in photograph numbered EW.4042. No tailor's name - with green Irish horn buttons. Handwoven.

 

souvenir / Aud, 1916

Bullet from the German Munition Ship, The Aud. Sent to Ireland for the Rising, 1916.

 

fragment / Aud, 1916

Fragment of wood inscribed ‘Wreckage of rifle from German Munition Ship. Ballycrone near Poer Head, Cork. Got by me on shore May 2 1916 F.J. Westropp’.

 

photograph / Ballykissane Pier, 1916

Photograph of the car which went into the sea off Ballykissane Pier on Good Friday, 1916, leading to the deaths of Con Keating, Daniel Sheehan and Charlie Monahan. Photograph supplied to Bureau of Military History by the man who owned the car which was engaged on Volunteer activities connected with...

 

photograph / Roger Casement, 20 May 1916

A page of Casement pictures from 'The Graphic', May 20th 1916. 'The Case Against Casement'.

 

photograph / Roger Casement and Robert Monteith

Postcard photograph showing Roger Casement and Robert Monteith on the Kerry Coast. A montage photograph.

 

rifle / Aud, 1916

Mosin Rifle, first adopted by the Russians in 1896. The donor's father, Mr. Hood, was the Commander of HMS Bluebell, stationed at Cobh, when the Aud was intercepted on 21st April 1916. This was part of the consignment of rifles intended for the 1916 rebellion. Fixed foresight and graduated rear...

 

rifle / Aud, 1916

Mosin rifle; Russian. Part of the 'Aud' consignment, salvaged from the wreck. Serial No.17640. Silver plaque on rifle butt reads - 'Rifle recovered from German SS Aud, sunk near Queenstown 21.4.1916'.

 

rifle / The Aud, 1916

Mosin, Russian rifle salvaged from 'The Aud', 1916. Said to have been used as evidence in preliminary trial of 'Casement' in Dublin under Major H.M. Fraser the Provost Marshal in Dublin, 1916, and kept by Major Fraser as a keepsake afterwards. Russian inscription and the no. 194770 stamped on...