1916 Rising Records and documents relating to Easter Week 1916 are contained in a series of files catalogued under ‘Membership and Organization’, including IRA Nominal Rolls and reports by Cumann na mBan, Na Fianna Éireann and the Irish Citizen Army. The most important of these files include the ‘Nominal Rolls for Easter Week 1916’ compiled … Read more
Sir,—The Liam and Tom O’Flaherty Society is searching for the manifesto issued by a 120-strong group of unemployed who seized the concert hall at the Rotunda (today’s Gate Theatre) in an effort to highlight the apathy of the authorities towards unemployment in the newly founded Irish Free State, 19–22 January 1922. This manifesto was drawn … Read more
Sir,—I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed your special issue on Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf (HI 22.2, March/April 2014). However, I am puzzled by the reference to the descendants of Cormac Cas as Dál Cais. As a proud member of that tribe I always knew it as Dál gCais, the reason being … Read more
Sir,—I have noticed belatedly the interesting article by John Gibney on Islandmagee in 1641 (HI 21.1, Jan./Feb. 2013). I am a direct descendant of Bryan McGee (1624–80), who, as the 1641 Depositions on-line show (http://www.1641.tcd.ie/), gave evidence at Lisnegarvey on 21 April 1653 regarding the murder of his family at Islandmagee on 8 January 1642. … Read more
The Military Service Pensions Collection originated in a decision of the Oireachtas, in June 1923, to compensate wounded members of the IRA, National Army, Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army, amongst others, along with the dependants of deceased members of these organisations. The various Army Pensions Acts passed, 1923 to 1980, and the Military Service … Read more