The autograph book originally belonged to John Lennon, of Killeenmore, Killeigh, and Harbour St, Tullamore. He was an internee of the Rath Internment Camp at the Curragh (1921) and later of Tintown Camp (1923). The album contains many Laois/Offaly signatories such as E. Forrestal, Tullamore (Rath); Bob Lennon, Killeigh (Rath); Frank Bulfin TD, Derrinlough, Birr (Rath); Seaghan Ó Dulchaointigh, Crinkle, Birr (Rath); J. G. Ross, Killeigh (Rath); Patrick J. Daly, Tullamore (Hut 31, Rath), Jimmie Egan, Henry Street, Tullamore (Hut 25, Rath), Denis Walsh, Tullamore (Hut 40, Rath); Séamus O’Faolain (Hut 12 Camp 3 Tintown), Patrick Boland, Ballycumber, (Camp 3 Tintown), Walter A. Mitchell (Camp 2 Tintown); Edward Dunne, Clonaslee (Camp 2, Tintown), Sean McGuinness TD, Kilbeggan, and P. Bracken, Clonaslee (Hut 12 Tintown). Later non-political entries dating from c. 1927 are by Maggie Corcoran (later Lennon) and her relatives and friends.
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- NT 1798 Rebellion
- NT 1916 Rising
- NT Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921
- NT Ballynowlart Martyrs
- NT Battle of Vinegar Hill
- NT Crotty Schism
- NT Gaelic revival
- NT Gaelic Sunday
- NT Geashill Cattle Drive
- NT Irish Civil War
- NT Land War
- NT Ranch War
- NT The Emergency
- NT The Great Famine
- NT The South African War, 1899-1902
- NT The Truce
- NT Tullamore Incident
- NT War of Independence
- NT World War 1
- NT World War 2
- NT Young Irelander Rebellion