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photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. 4.3" by 2.752. Shows Internees enjoying an alfresco meal.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. Shows fish for Friday's dinner being prepared outside the cookhouse. 4.2" by 2.75".
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. Shows Internees outside the cookhouse. 4.2" by 2.75".
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. 4.2" BY 2.75". Shows five internees outside No.1 Hut, A. Coy. Left to right: J.V. Lawless, M.O'Leary: (name unknown, Irishman from Liverpool); Ml. McHugh; John Joe Walsh.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. View of double entrance gate from the inside, looking north. 4.2" by 2.75".
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, August 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. Shows a football game in progress. View accross playing field towards N.E.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. View from inside, through the doorway of No.1 Hut, A Coy. lines, looking east. Shows Sgt. Roper of the Black Watch in middle centre, and in the left foreground Ed McEvoy, a prisoner, standing in the doorway through which the...
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Taken by internee Joseph V. Lawless. Shows interior of a hospital in the Camp. 4.2" by 2.75".
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. View looking South along the the East side of the Camp. Soldiers digging a deep trench around the Camp between the wire and the huts to prevent tunnelling. This was done after a mass escape through a tunnel at a point on...
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows Internees leaving Mass on Sunday. Mass was celebrated in the Hut on right in photo', which could not accommodate the congragation. Those unable to get in surrounded the hut, the door and window of which were left open....
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows the Camp Sergeant Major and another soldier driving a cart carrying the prisoner's mail to the Camp post office to be censored. 4.2" by 2.75".
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Group of Internee patients. Tuberculosis patients, outside the Isolation Hospital.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows Internees on the football field after a mass escape of prisoners by tunnel. They were held on parade for some hours while the Camp authorities tried to establish the names of those missing and searched the camp for...
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. View taken from the door of the Altar of the Catholic Church, where Fr. Paddy Smith of Tullamore, himself a prisoner celebrated Mass for the Internees. 4.7" by 2.7"
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows group of Internees at laundry work. On right is the prisoner who took charge of the boiler and provided the hot water supply.
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken by Joseph Lawless in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows Internees at a physical training class organised by Paddy Daly, fifth from right in photograph. 4.2" by 2.75".
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows football game in progress. 4.1" by 2.5"
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. Shows six Internees outside a hut in the Camp. 4.2" by 2.75".
photograph / Rath Internment Camp, 1921
Photograph taken in Rath Internment Camp, Curragh, 1921. View of the Bath House in the Rath Internment Camp. 4.2" by 2.7".