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Portland Prison

An image of the interior of Portland Prison in Dorset, England. The caption reads ‘Portland Prison, Inside the New Hall, showing exterior of cells / Iron ladders & corridors. Life saving nets etc’.

Released Prisoner Group

A photograph of a large group of former Irish republican prisoners. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘Released Prisoner Group’. The group includes Éamon de Valera, Eoin MacNeill, and W.T. Cosgrave. The photograph was likely taken at the Mansion House in Dublin. The image is credited to Keogh Brothers Studio.

Telegram from Nora Ashe

A telegram from Nora Ashe which reads ‘Prisoners all here. Frank [Fahy] in great form’. The telegram is most likely to addressed to Frank Fahy’s wife (Anna Fahy) in Tralee, County Kerry.

Letter from D. O’Callaghan to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap.

Letter from D. O’Callaghan, prisoner no. q 128, Lewes Prison, to Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap., concerning his conditions of imprisonment. He also expresses his joy on hearing that the ‘Gaelic League is doing splendidly and was never stronger’. He later claims that ‘my people are immigrated all over the world not through any fault of their own and not necessary for me to tell you the cause’. He has yet to receive a letter mailed to him from his brother in America.

Notes from Frank Cullen referring to prison conditions

Notes from Frank Cullen, prisoner no. 135, to his brother Tom and to his mother, mostly referring to prison conditions. He informs his brother that a photograph of ‘poor John J. Heuston which his sister Theresa sent me about a fortnight ago’ was confiscated. ‘I was told that the photograph was of one of the men executed in Dublin and they could not give it to me … you see we are not allowed to have the photograph of an Irishman in our cells who gave his life for his country’. He asks both his brother and mother to remember him to his various friends at home.

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