Guide to the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection

by Defence Forces Ireland

Overview

Explore the many testimonies and accounts of the surviving leaders, the veterans and volunteers who took part in the historic events of Ireland's 1916 Rising, the War of Independence and Civil War, along with a plethora of supporting documentation gathered from the participants through the unique collection that is the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection. For the first time, the collection is being made available on a phased basis leading to 2016.

The collection comprises of a large and varied corpus of archival material and records. The two broad streams of legislation are used to illustrate the nature and content of the personal files of applicants and the relevance of the supporting administrative records and other material in the collection.

The Guide to the Military Service Pension Collection tells how the collection is organised and about the information it contains.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045747974
Publisher:	Defence Forces Ireland
Publication date:	03/03/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	940,372
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

This is an official source of ebooks from the Military Archives of the Irish Defence Forces.

The mission of the Military Archives, Ireland is to acquire, preserve and make available to the public the documentary heritage of the Irish Defence Forces and the Department of Defence.

Military Archives is the place of deposit for the archives of the Defence Forces, the Department of Defence and the Army Pensions Board, under the terms of the National Archives Act, 1986. Archives are records with a special significance, records that are deemed to have an enduring value, for a variety of reasons. The term record includes paper documents such as ‘one off’ files, letters and memoranda, as well as pictorial records such as photographs and film. This is unlike the material held in a typical library, which is almost always printed or published material that has been widely disseminated in printed format. Archives are absolutely unique and irreplaceable: once lost they can never be recovered. Increasingly, archives today are also acquired in electronic format – whether sound, image or text digital files.

The Military Archives is an official place of deposit since 1990 and includes the Collins Papers, the Bureau of Military History collection and Captured Documents (Civil War up to 1925), which continue to be made available today.

The Military Archives currently has a staff of three civilian archivists who operate alongside military archivists and assistants working under the direction of the Officer in Charge, Commandant Pádraic Kennedy.