Overview

Collection includes a prison autograph album and correspondence from Irish nationalist and prisoner, George Watters, who was with the Waterford Irish Republican Army (IRA). There are a few other related papers in the collection as well, including a blank petition for Watters' release.

Overview Autograph book compiled in November and December 1923 in no. 2 Camp, Tintown, The Curragh, Ireland. The volume mostly consists of entries by Tipperary, Kilkenny and Laois prisoners, but also includes entries from prisoners removed from Cork, Kerry and Dublin. These individuals were imprisoned by the Irish Free State for fighting, or being suspected of fighting, on the Anti-Treaty side of the 1922-1923 Civil War. Individual entries often note the date and provide a poem, quotation, or other...