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shotgun bayonet / 1916 Rising, Mount Street
Shotgun bayonet with wing nuts to attach to gun barrel. Made in Dublin, 1916, and used in Mount Street area. The blade is about 11 1/2 inches in length and ground to an edge on both sides. The holder to which it is rivetted is made specially so that it may be attached to a single barrel shot gun....
prison biscuit / Frank Murray, Fianna Éireann, 1916
The Prisoners Biscuit, 1916. A biscuit of the kind given to prisoners in the Royal Dublin Society grounds in Ballsbridge and at Richmond Barracks, Easter 1916. The owner writes "they were so very hard that few of us could eat them". Given to Frank Murray at Richmond Barracks. At the time, he was...