Box 1
Container
Contains 3 Results:
"Oglaıġ na h-Éıreann Provi--nals" with a figure of a man in camouflage holding a rifle over his head, colored marker on canvas mounted to a plaque, 1970s-1980s
File — Box: 1, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection contains political artwork created by people incarcerated in Northern Ireland prisons during the Troubles, a period of violent conflict between Protestant unionists and Roman Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland in the late twentieth century. Artworks include drawings, paintings, leatherwork, and sculpture featuring Celtic revival motifs, doves, the Island of Ireland, weaponry and armed figures, and prison buildings. Both unionist and nationalist groups are...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1970s-1980s
"Long Kesh, P.H. Pearse" with a profile of Pearse, painting on canvas mounted to a plaque, 1970s-1980s
File — Box: 1, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Collection contains political artwork created by people incarcerated in Northern Ireland prisons during the Troubles, a period of violent conflict between Protestant unionists and Roman Catholic nationalists in Northern Ireland in the late twentieth century. Artworks include drawings, paintings, leatherwork, and sculpture featuring Celtic revival motifs, doves, the Island of Ireland, weaponry and armed figures, and prison buildings. Both unionist and nationalist groups are...
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1970s-1980s
"Long Kesh, 1975" with a quote from Walter Macken's The Silent People, colored marker on canvas mounted to a plaque, 1975
File — Box: 1, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
Includes an outline of Ireland with the quote "Ireland 1826, when millions knew only famine, oppression and degradation" and a longer quote: "We are the silent people, how long must we be still to nurse in secret at our breast an ancient culture? Let us arise and cry then; call from the sleeping ashes of destiny a chieftain who will be our voice. He will strike the brass and we will erupt from our hidden caves into the golden light of new-born day."
Access Note
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1975