Internment, Imprisonment and Escape - Imprisonment
'We got him out to put him in', 1917-1918
HE:2007.1.477
HE:2007.1.477
'We got him out to put him in', 1917-1918
Election poster reading 'We got him out to put him in', for candidate William Cosgrave ‘A felon of our land’, for either the 1917 parliamentary by-election for Kilkenny City or the 1918 General Election. Printed at the Gaelic Press.Cosgrave had been interned in Frongoch after the 1916 Rising, and won the Kilkenny City by-election in 1917. Later, while still imprisoned, he took a seat for Sinn Féin in the 1918 General Election. He became the Minister for Local Government in April 1919 in Dáil Éireann.
Suíomh:
'We got him out to put him in', 1917-1918 suite ag:
In Storage
An déantán roimhe seo:
Prison album, Belfast Jail, 10 July 1918
An chéad déantán eile:
Keys, Lincoln Jail escape, February 1919