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Field glasses of Joseph Lawless

Field glasses of Joseph Lawless

Field glasses of Joseph Lawless. Lawless hid them with a Lee Enfield carbine rifle captured from the R.I.C. by the Irish Volunteers at the Battle of Ashbourne. He retrieved them when he was released from Frongoch, December 1916.

Object Details

Creator:
Unknown
Date:
Easter Week 1916
Place:
Ashbourne, (Meath, Ireland), Frongoch, Bala, Gwynedd
Format:
field glasses
Institution:
National Museum of Ireland
Rights:
© National Museum of Ireland.
Type:
  • Physical Object
    • Subject:
  • Paramilitary forces--Irish Volunteers,
  • Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916,
  • Police--Royal Irish Constabulary,
  • Curated Collection--Rising in the Regions,
  • Internment camps,
  • Revolutionaries,
  • battles
    • Era:
    Twentieth century

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