‘I DID THE WORK I WAS FIT FOR’—SEÁN O’FAOLAIN’S PENSION APPLICATION
By John Grant When Seán O’Faolain’s application for a service certificate landed on a clerk’s desk, signed and dated 22 July 1936, the document offered a private unveiling. His request to apply ‘for a pension as a member of the Irish Republican Army from 1918 to 1924’ was not administered for a year and, writing … Read more