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