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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.


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Showing results from Hunger Strike, 1920

 

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.

 

drawing / Terence MacSwiney, Brixton, 1920

Charcoal drawing of Terence MacSwiney on his death-bed. While two figures representing English civil and military authorities stand by and remark: "Il est plus grand que nous". Made by a Breton artist, A. Benesseck, in 1920. 16.25" by 12.625".

 

photograph / Cathal O'Shannon, Hunger Strike, 1920

Photograph, 1920 Hunger Strike. Cathal O'Shannon in bed in the Mater Hospital, talking to Fr Augustine OSFC. 13 by 19 inches.

 

photograph / Mountjoy, Hunger Strike, 1920

(Cashman 49) Hunger Strike, 1920. Photograph of Republican sympathisers, including Madame Despard, outside Mountjoy Jail during the hunger strike of 1920.