Black Veil worn by Liam Mellows
Black veil worn by Liam Mellows while escaping to America from Ireland after the Rising. Liam Mellows and two of his officers, Alfie Monaghan and Frank Hynes, went on the run after the Volunteers disbanded in Galway. They spent 5 months in the mountains around Knockjames, Co. Clare, before Dublin Headquarters ordered Mellows to go to America. He and his travel companion, Pauline Barry, were disguised as nuns as they escaped from Ireland.
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Unknown
Date:
1916
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Knockjames (Clare, Ireland), New York, N.Y., Galway, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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© National Museum of Ireland.
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