The Military Service Pensions Collection contains more than 40 file series, relating to individual applications for pensions or awards, to membership of various organisations (mainly the Irish Republican Army, Cumann na mBan and Fianna Éireann ) as well as administration files and material, offering a vivid contextual background to the entire collection.
The online publication of the Military Service Pensions Collection received a huge interest, including a series of articles in the press – see the links to some of them below.
New archive tells stories of ordinary volunteers in Easter Rising | Stephen Collins | Thu, Jan 16, 2014
Your stories of relatives who fought in the Rising | Ronan McGreevy | Thu, Jan 16, 2014
A window into the soul of Ireland | Diarmaid Ferriter | Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Women played key and courageous role in 1916 Rising | Genevieve Carbery | Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Teenager was shot dead when 1916 volunteers hid in her house | Genevieve Carbery | Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Archives will shed more light on intimidation and murder of Protestants by elements of the IRA | Stephen Collins | Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Military Pension Archive: Timetable | Ronan McGreevy | Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Executed Rising leader’s widow refused pension, files show | Ronan McGreevy | Sat, Jan 18, 2014
History lessons must not become a thing of the past | Stephen Collins | Sat, Jan 18, 2014
Rising veteran’s memoir tells of his experiences in Irish Citizen Army | Ronan McGreevy | Sat, Jan 18, 2014
Only eyewitness account of Easter Rising leaders’ burial is made public | Ronan McGreevy | Sat, Jan 18, 2014 and a response to the article by the Letters of 1916 Project’s Principle Investigator and Editor-in-Chief, Professor Susan Schreibman:
Letter to the Editor – Stories from the Rising | Susan Schreibman | Wed, Jan 22, 2014
New digital archives store tales of 1916 Rising volunteers | Ed Carthy | Thu, Jan 16, 2014
Online treasure trove brings volunteers’ first-hand experience of 1916 Rising to life | Cormac Murphy | Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Now we’ll find out who was really in the GPO in 1916 | Dermot Keogh | Fri, Jan 17, 2014
Republican’s letter shows how Treaty divided comrades | Cormac Murphy | Fri, Jan 17, 2014