1

Kelly

Eamon

Belfast, Falls Road

28  Jul 1921

Hut One, Camp 2

P01

This day I have begun to carve a harp from a Ballykinlar bone. [Gaelic] May God give me help.

2

McBrearthy

Eamon

Donegal

28 Jul 1921

P02

I have fought on many battlefields, But none I love so well/as the one I have been denied/The right to fight for/By England's tyrant laws/My dark Rosaleen

3

Mulroy

Sean

29 Jul 1921

P03

Ballykinlar

4

Mulroy

Sean

30 Jul 1921

P04

Cartoon:  Is this the way to the Ballykinlar tunnel, Mister?

5

Twomey

L. H.

Oldcastle -Late of Cork City

 Meath

15 Aug  1921

Hut 26

G

P05

But 'twere better be/ A prisoner for ever,/With no destiny/to do, or to endeavour;/Better, life to spend as Martyr or confessor,/Than in silence bend/To alien or oppressor."

6

O'Callaghan

David

Castletownroche

Cork

8 Jan 1921

Hut 1

E

P06

May prosperity travel with you/Morning, Noon, and Night. Is the wish of one who knew you./ A Comrade in the fight.

7

O'Neill

Sean

Belfast

29 Jul 1921

P07

The North began,/The North held on./God bless our/Northern Land.

8

Brennock

Michael

Dungarvan, 5 Grattan Sq.

Waterford

P08

Freedoms battle, once begun,/Tho baffled oft, is ever won.

9

Duggan

Timothy

Lismore, Chapel Street

Waterford

8 Dec 1921

P09

Old Steve

10

Loughman

M.

Kilkenny, New Street

P10

Oft in the stilly night/Where barbed wire hath bound me/Fond memory brings the light/of Ballykinlar Camp around me. [From Thomas Moore poem: Oft in the stilly night, when slumber's chains hath bound me/Fond memories bring the light/of other days around me.]

11

Healy

Jeremiah

Cork City

Cork

2 Aug 1921

Hut 3 Camp 2

E

P11

The Irish Race, distinct, apart,/And so till time itself shall end/The Irish and the English heart/No human power can fuse or blend.

12

Heron

James

14 Aug 1921

Hut 14 Camp 2

F

P12

“We have learned one less in Ireland,/And that is, that it is by acts and not by talk that a nation will achieve its freedom."  President de Valera, July 22nd 1921.

13

Goilide? **

David

Late 2 Victoria St., SCR [South Circular Road] Dublin

Dublin

5 Aug 1921

Hut 19

G

P13

14

Mac Gionnacaigh - possibly McGonakey

Joseph

Late of Co. Meath

20 Aug 1921

P14

“Go to Father" she said./And she knew that I knew/That her Father was dead./And she knew that I knew/What a life he had led/When "Go to Father" she said.

15

O'Robbeain  [Robbins?] Rorleain

Peadar

Achill Island

Mayo

19 Aug  1921

1017

Hut 34 - Cage 2

H

P15

Ballykinlar Interment [sic] Camp, Co Down - - Oh where, oh where, is Collins hid/Lord French is dourly shouting/We'll get him yet, you have no fear/Sir Hamar's daily spouting - - & the black and tans/ are going white/ with searching and with prowling - - and because Poor Mick is still live King George/himselfis growling.

16

Ginnity

James

Late of College Hill, Slane

Meath

20 Aug 1921

1049

Hut 31 Camp 2

H

P16

When over lifes path you tread/And new friends around you linger/And you cease to worry about macrame thread/Don't forget the three plank Bed/Or the lazy life you led./In God-forsaken Ballykinlar.

17

 O'Cuill **   Quill

Sean

Ardglass

Down

8 Dec 1921

P17

“A cause like ours knows not defeat."

18

Lynchehan

John

Polranny, Achill Sound

Mayo

20 Aug 1921

P18

Let cowards sneer and foes defame/Oh little do we care a felons cap/ is the noblest crown an Irish/head can wear.

19

Mangan

Ned

Mayo

P19

Black & Tans are leaving/After them we're grieving/Lamenting girls & boys/Loudly making noise/Yelling with their grief/Kept & fed on beef/In Ballykinlar Camp/No need to work or tramp/Lazy & idle each day./Always passing away/Roving where we may.

20

KELLY *

A

P20

[Romantic drawing of man and young woman in medieval type dress.]

21

O'Sullivan

Dan.Joe.

Castletownroche

Cork

Hut 1 Camp 2

E

P21

Life in Ballykinlar.   The bacon is putrid and the butter's long worse/The stew is just aful and the cocoa's a curse/With the mumps and the scabies all your joys for to mar/Sure life is a pleasure in Ballykinlar

22

Lennon

Bernard

Dowdalls Hill, Dundalk

Louth

20 Jul 1921

Hut 3 Camp 2

E

P22

To Erin.  Oh the Erne shall run red/With redundance of blood/The earth shall rock beneath our tread/And flames wrap hill and wood/And gun peal and slogan cry/wake many a glen serene/Ere you shall fade  Ere you shall die/My Dark Rosaleen.

23

O'Gara

Shawn

Kilcar

Donegal  [Tirconnell]

29 Jul 1921

Hut 1 No.2 Camp

K [or E]

P23

Shall we call proud England mother?/Shall we greet her as a friend?/ By God's help and with God's blessing/We are rebles to the end.

24

Ward

Seamus

Ballyshannon

28 Jul 1921

P24

The felons cap is the noblest crown/An Irish head can wear.

25

Rogan

Owen

143 Springfield Rd., Belfast

2 Aug  1921

Hut 14

P25

Strike, for your own again/Fight for your own again/Irish lands in Irish hands/We'll have our own again. Eogan O'Ruiagain

26

Whelan

P.

Two Mile Bridge, Dungarvan

Waterford

2 Aug 1921

Hut 2

P26

Let friends all turn against me/Let foes say what they will/ My heart is with my country/And I love old Ireland still.

27

Byrne

W.

Downpatrick, Caroonia? Ulster

7 Dec 1921

Hut 25 Cage 2

P27

 "The North began the North held on"/And she has still to hold on.

28

Hannigan

James

Curraughamore,   Ballybofey

Donegal

14 Aug 1921

P28

For her I live/For her I pray/The voice is silent never/For her we'll fight/Come what may/The Republican Flag for ever.

29

O'Halpin **

Hugh E.

My residence is "Island of the Lake"

Down

7 Dec 1921

P29

[Translated from the Gaelic]  My Advice.  The man who is watching someone else's business neglects his own business.  Do not give advice or it will come back to haunt you.

30

KELLY *

Norah

P30

Yours truly  [Drawing of a parrot]

31

O'Spordain **

Liam

Drumlagan, Oldcastle

Meath

18 Aug 1921

P31

32

HARTNETT *

Maggie E. de M.

6 May 1909

P32

 "Not enjoyment and not sorrow/Is our disdained end or way/ But to act that each tomorrow/ Find us farther than today."

33

Gammell

Michael

c/o Hogan Bros. Garage and Works, Killmallock

Limerick

14 Jan 1922

P33

Released from Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, 14/1/22.  God made Ireland a nation and/while grass grows and water flows/there shall be men in Ireland to dare and die for her.

34

McAneany  **

Seamus

Limerick

8 Dec 1921

Camp 2

P34

QM [Quartermaster?] Camp Two [Translated from the Gaelic]

35

Mullen

Christopher

Dublin

Dublin

2 Aug 1921

Hut 35 Camp 2

H

P35

My Name is Christy Mullen and no one ere did see me sullen/and me face with smiles from now you'll see adornin'/from this camp and its Bad Bacon soon my leave sure I'll be taken/and be sailing home to Dublin some fine morning./With my box upon my shoulder/Sure as down the street I'll shoulder/and the D.M.P. with black looks I'll be scornin'/and that night we'll have a Tare Oh/as we Shout up DeValero/When I arrive from Ballykinlar some fine morning. (The Lord Mayor, Ballykinlar No. 2 Camp)

36

Bracken

Liam

Drumcondra

Dublin

1921

Camp 2

P36

[Caption to a drawing] Camp 2 Ballykinlar (showing Slieve Donard in the background.)

37

McDaid

Jack

109 Creggan Rd., Derry

8 Dec 1921

1986

Hut 16 Camp 2

F

P37

38

Twomey

Leo

Oldcastle?

Meath

1152

Hut 26 Cage 2

G

P38

["This and the following six names appear on one page,headed by the handwritten title "Hairdressing Saloon W: 2 Cage B'Kinlar".  It was probably a list compiled by a barber.  Each man wrote his own name and address in the book, and none are dated.  They are listed first by their prisoner number, then by name.]

39

Mulholland

Cornelius

Dundalk

167

Noq. Hut

E

P38

Ditto

40

Mallon

James

Dublin

Dublin

1251

19 Hut

Manager G Co.

P38

Ditto

41

Busby

Jerome

Cork

Cork

1603

Hut 6

E

P38

Ditto

42

Rosborough

James

Dublin

Dublin

Hut 33

H

P38

Ditto

43

Murray

David

Lurgan

1824

Hut 19

G

P38

Ditto

44

Dillon

Patrick J.

Dublin

Dublin

1174

Hut 30

H

P38

Ditto

45

O'Mahony

Bartholomew

Ballynenalagh, Rathcormac

Cork

8 Dec 1921

Hut 1, Camp 2

E

P39

No paint or King hath tomb so proud/As he whose flag becomes his shroud.  Remembrance

46

BELL *

G. T.

1909

P40

[Drawing of a rose]

47

Bracken

J

Drumcondra

Dublin

1921

P41 P42 P41-42

[A two page cartoon of a soccer game, caption as follows:]  The little imps attacked, and - -- Reprisals followed.

48

O'Tobin**

Seamus

Lurgan

Armagh

7 Dec 1921

Hut 25 Camp 2

G

P43

Ulster is not our real enemy./though Ulster thinks we are her enemy./Time will prove who are Ulster's friend and ours."

49

SULLIVAN *

Florence

P44

Yours sincerely.  "Soft blushes tinge her cheeks/And mantle o'er her neck of snow/Ah now she murmurs, now she speaks/What most I wish & fear to know."  Cowper

50

Leahy

R.

NE Fermis? Eirann-Rushbrook Docks, Cobh

Cork

P45

“I would rather face three Black and Tans/Than Parkhurst Beans and Bacon"  F. Brennan

51

O'Kelly

Sean

Offaly

18 Jan 1922

O/C Offaly Brigade No 1, 14th Infantry Division, IRA

P46

“Remember"  There is still a fight to be fought.

52

O'C (abbreviated

M.

[Illegible]

8 Dec 1921

P47

“Government without consent of governed is the definition of slavery."

53

Condon

Patrick J.

BallyMacmague Dungarvan

Waterford

28 Jul 1921

P48

On Artic's wastes some wish to roam/Some on the Tropic deserts tour/But where is he who'd care to see/Ballykinlar's fetid, arid moon.

54

McKenna**

Padraig

Dungarvan

Waterford

29 Jul 1921

Chief Officer, Munster Brigade

P49

55

McMahon

Francis

Tonagh, Gortnamard P.O.

Monaghan

P50

56

Mulcahy

Patrick

Dungarvan

Waterford

1 Aug 1921

Hut 1

E

P51

Town Clerk, Dungarvan

57

 CARR *

Monica

P52

58 Nichols Square, Hackney Rd., London E  [Name on inside back cover.]

** All or part of name or inscription written in Gaelic.

* WOMEN listed in Capital Letters

Women's signatures date from 1909