Unsigned watercolour of a burial cross with the inscription:
'In loving memory of Kevin Barry who died for Ireland Nov 2nd 1920'. Also captioned 'memory is the only friend that grieve [sic] can call its own.'
Rath Internment Camp
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Quote transcribed by Frank McGuinness (Kilbeggan), Rath Camp:
Work Advice
'Work my friends, is the lot of man! Man was sent into this world to earn his living by the sweat of his brow. You didn't find Adam walking about the Garden of Eden with his hands in his pockets! '
Verses transcribed Padraic Ó Briain, Rath Camp:
They lost! But O! They conquer
These men who their land would save
A firing party at break of day.
And a tasty quick-lime grave.
But think not of them with scorn
Nor mourn for the cause they died
This death saved Ireland's honour
What mattered all else beside.
We've been told twas a failure by those that ne'er understood
How the new born soul of Erin was baptised in martyrs' blood
And to all who crave for freedom, as the world its
meaning know, I give them this little story
The story of Glorious Easter Week.
Note by Jimmie Egan (O'Carroll St, Tullamore), Hut 25, C Company, Rath Camp:
'In your golden chain of friendship, consider me a link (the missing one!)'
Drawing of Hut 26, C. Company at Rath Internment Camp with list of internees. Hut Leader listed as Denis Pender and the Quarter Master as [Patrick Delahunt]. Internees are listed from Number 1062 to 1091 as follows: 1062 Peter Traynor, 1063 John Lennon, 1064 John Ravenhill, 1065 Joe Lee, 1066 Henry Haughey, 1067 Michael Cooke, 1068 Vincent Neville, 1069 Thomas Finlay, 1070 Thomas Clarke, 1071 John Traynor, 1072 Michael Doyle, 1073 William Tobin, 1074 John Horan, 1075 M[ichael] Molloy, 1076 Denis Pender, 1077 John Buggle, 1078 Patrick Brady, 1079 Jerry Kelly, 1080 Patirck Quinn, 1081 Patrick [Delahunt], 1082 John Daly, 1083 Jerry Neville, 1084 Joseph Neville, 1086 Thomas McGivinchy, 1086 Jason McBrien, 1087 Patrick Costello, 1088 [Matthew] Conifray, 1089 Larry [Hayden], 1090 Thomas Shanley, and 1091 Bernard Maguire.
Verse by Denis (Dinny) Pender, Internee 1076, Hut 26:
'You have asked me to write in your Auts
But I don't know where to begin
For there's nothing original in me
Except for original sin'
Verse from internee No 1065, Joseph Lee, Hut 26:
'I wished I was a little Duck
All swimming on a lake
And I beside you swimming too
A faithful little drake.'
Quote from Thomas Davis transcribed by Laurence Hayden (Roscommon), Rath Camp:
'Ireland's Wants: To get her peasants into snug homesteads, with wee tilled fields and placid hearths. To develop the ingenuity of her artists, and the docile industry of her artisans. To make for her own instruction a literature wherein our climate, history and passions shall breathe again - conscious strength and integrity and the high post of holy freedoom - these are Ireland's wants.'
Verse by Internee 1071, Hut 26, Rath, JohnJ. Horan:
'When the evening sun is setting
And your mind from care is free
When of Rath Camp you are thinking
Won't you sometimes think of me.'
Signatures of Cathal O Broin (Dublin) and Frank Bulfin, T.D. (Derrinlough, Birr, Offaly).
Quote transcribed by Seaghan Ó Dulchaointigh, (Crinkle, Birr, Offaly): 'The tongue of the conqueror in the mouths of the conquered is the language of slaves'.