Historical Collections Online

 

journal / The Rough Tough Truth

Copy of 'The Rough Tough Truth -a Journal of Uncommon Sense' Dundalk Jail. Vol 1. no 1. This Journal contains many amusing references to the late Terence MacSwiney who was a prisoner in the jail at the time, June 1918. Also an account in Irish of the marriage of Diarmuid Ua Loinsigh, which took...

 

letter / Sean Treacy, 1918

Photostat of letter of Sean Treacy from Dundalk Prison 5/4/1918 to Patrick Deere. No envelope.

 

newsheet / The Rough Tough Truth, June 1918

Copy of 'The Rough Tough Truth'. A Journal of Uncommon Sense, Dundalk Jail, June 1918, Vol. 1 No. 1. Prison Journal - printed.

 

political cartoon / John Dillon's body is lying in Dundalk Jail tonight, but his soul goes marching on, 1888

Political cartoon, taken from the Weekly Freeman, 30 June 1888. Titled 'John Dillon's body is lying in Dundlak Jail tonight, but his soul goes marching on', Spoken at Dundalk by William O'Brien, June 20. Depicts John Dillon lying on a jail bed, dreamig of Home Rule. With verse. Collection of...

 

prison autograph album / Hunger Strike, Mountjoy & Dundalk, 1917

Autograph album, signed by the IRA members who were on hunger strike in Mountjoy and Dundalk jails, September to November, 1917.

 

resource / Irish Civil War, 1923

Irish Civil War autograph album. Photocopy of entries by republican prisoners on release late in 1923 from Tintown, Newbridge, Gormanstown, Dundalk and Mountjoy.