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.
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prison art / Prisoner art
Sketch, pencil drawing by Cathal MacDowell. Prisoner art. Place of detention not stated, but probably Frongoch, 1916.
prison art / Frongoch , 1916
Frongoch prisoner's work. Small macramé bag made by Domhnall Ua Buachalla of Maynooth during his internment in Frongoch, 1916. Purple in colour.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Prison craftwork, Frongoch. Macramé bag made by Peter Coates, Irish Citizen Army, Dublin. Cream in colour.
prison art / Frongoch, 1916
Frongoch prisoner's work. Cross carved from a meat bone by Thomas O'Donohoe of the Irish Cirizen Army, Dublin, when a prisoner of war at Frongoch 1916. Stand made by him at a later date.
prison art / Napoleonic War
French Prisoner of War model ship. Napoleonic War period. Three-masted war ship of bone and wood.