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Release 18 Highlights (Pt. 3) – The Civic Guard in the Civil War, the veteran who repaid his pension, and some interesting documents On the left - One of the few personal photographs found so far in the collection. Margaret Kelly, widow of Patrick Kelly MSP34REF19983

Release 18 Highlights – Kilkenny native jailed in Canada John Keane (MSP34REF1992) was born in Kilkenny in 1892 and joined the Irish Volunteers in 1916. He later left his position as a draper’s assistant in Kenny’s, High Street, Kilkenny and became a member of the Active Service Unit (Flying…

Release 18 is live and this is the first installment of a series of blog posts highlighting the best, the strangest, the go-against-grain stories of this new release. Enjoy! militarypensions.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/r...

#R18 Here is a teaser about our release, along with a full nominal list. Over 2,100 files will enter the public domain tomorrow. This month, we're clocking at 20,940 individual entries for Pensions only, all files digitised and FREE to access. www.militaryarchives.ie/en/online-co...

International Archives Week starts today! The International Council on Archives have organised free webinars everyday open to everyone: www.ica.org/join-the-iaw... Because making archives accessible is much more than digitising them. 🙌🏽 #IAW2025

Happy to announce that the MSPA Project Team will proceed to its 18th Release on Tuesday 17 June. More than 2000 files are in the starting blocks. More details soon. #Archives #PublicRelease

MSP Archive Cinic! Do you have any questions regarding the collection or the pensions legislation? Can we help? #MSPAC

Delighted to present at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social International Conf, in Austria: How @msp-archive.bsky.social enables the excavation of a multiplicity of meanings and how archives can shift our perspectives. From the BMH to the MSPA, our vision has been transformed. @uni-graz.at

The cataloguing + digitising of the Military Service Pensions Archive participates in making the archives of Ireland’s revolution one of the most documented and most freely accessible revolutionary archives in the world. The Internal Archives Week 2025 is almost there!! Accessibility for everyone

We believe that the MSPC has resumed its service during the day. Apologies for the inconvenience everyone. 🙌🏽

John MacBride, executed in May 1916 for his participation in the Rising is present in the collection through Maud Gonne’s claim for an allowance on behalf of her husband. The file contains a copy of a marriage certificate in the parish de St Honoré d’Eylau, Paris, where Seán MacBride was born. #MSPC

April 1923 - Civile War Executions. militarypensions.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/c...

Sam McGrath, one of our @msp-archive.bsky.social archivists will present his research on Kilmacud's revolutionary residents at St Laurence's Parish Centre on Thursday 10th April at 8pm. We invite you all to go see him.

One more day to go! #JobFairy #Deadline

We're hiring!! We're looking for a professional archivist with a bit of experience for @msp-archive.bsky.social Come join our small but mighty team! 💪🏽 🚨 Send CV and letter of interest before 28 March 2025. More here: www.gov.ie/en/organisation-information/b25b6d-job-vacancies/

Are you a qualified archivist? Are you highly motivated, energetic and .....passionate about archives? Come join our team!

It's lovely to have interns in the archive for the first time in a long time. It's a great exercise to try and verbalise how we do our work. Explaining process things that have become second nature over years in @msp-archive.bsky.social is in fact incredibly challenging 😅

The @msp-archive.bsky.social is going from strength to strength. The end of the Decade of Centenaries has opened a new, exciting chapter. Loads to do, some invisible work and some very visible changes. Numerous projects, short and long term. It's a good time to do deep work.

Archival folders delivery day!! 6,000 X 4-flap archival folders for MSPA. We're a small team but we're going through 150 folders a week, easy.

Records and archives can be instruments of oppression and evidential objects leading to exoneration and restitution. Because they are powerful tools to judge corruption and wrongdoings, records need to be kept well during dark times. It is their way to speak truth to power.

Cataloguing Wednesday with an only too rare but lovely find. #Gaeilge #Irish #IrishArchives #Ireland

Following his talk Sam McGrath has turned his lecture into a blog post (slides downloadable). We're exploring possibilities to cover more local ground. This presentation roughly covered #Dublin3 Marino, Drumcondra, Fairview, Ballybough, North Strand... militarypensions.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/s...

Reminder that Sam McGrath, MSPC Archivist is talking in Marino tonight at 7pm. It will be a great talk and you're in for a treat. Also! You'll be able to pick up a free copy of our latest publication, A Very Hard Struggle, published in Nov 2023. 🙌🏽📖 Enjoy!

Want to know more about the Irish Revolution military service pensions? Check this out below 👇👇 #military #veteran #pension #Ireland

Sam McGrath, one of our MSPC archivists will be talking at what will be our very first public lecture of the year! Go see him on Friday 10th January at Carleton Hall in Marino. We're looking forward to sharing more of our research around Dublin neighbourhoods. #Marino #Fairview

We are hereby reopening the successful MSP Archive clinic. We invite you to use this thread to ask us questions about the collection, its provenance and file content, army pension legislation, quotes and references, use of material and archival cataloguing. [126,585 files catalogued so far] 👇🏽

Join us in April 2025 for the 1st of 3 events funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social via @sshmedicine.bsky.social The first being hosted by the Uni of Birmingham (UK) and also supported by @fwwsoc.bsky.social A keynote by Brian K. Feltman of @mhptpodcast.bsky.social #milwelfhist #WW1 #FWW

2024 was a good year for our team! This is just a small picture of what we've been at!

With the help of @theirishstory.bsky.social and @msp-archive.bsky.social, friends and family members I have spent the past few months researching my Irish family history. Starting with the discovery of one address in Ringsend, Dublin I've found a story that starts in a Dublin workhouse...

All thanks to the well-preserved and manged veterans pensions files of the @msp-archive.bsky.social #milwelfhist

“If you don’t know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. If you were born yesterday then any leader can tell you anything.” Howard Zinn, American historian (1924-2010)

Welcome to our new followers!! It's lovely to see new names and migrants from...you know...the other place. 👋🏽 📣 We will soon reinstate our MSPArchive clinic here and on Facebook, where we will welcome all your questions about the nature and content of the collection. We might even answer them! 🙌🏽

Genuinely sorry to see Malcolm Noonan lose his seat. A massive supporter of our built heritage he'll be a loss in the architectural community. Had him on my radio show a few times, always a passionate voice. #ge24

#ExploreYourArchive theme today is #YourArchive. My archive is in fact, your archive. Our aim is to preserve and make accessible this legacy for the nation and beyond. We work on a collection that talks about you. #PublicGood #PublicService #Education #IrishArchives

Hayley! That's fantastic! Exactly the type of research that's needed. We're very happy about that. Well done!

For today’s Explore Your Archive theme of #EYAFamily, we just don't know where to start... Families in @msp-archive.bsky.social are everywhere. Families together, formed through local marriages, emigrated, divided, forgotten and found again.

The Archive that keeps on giving.....

Mary Anne Murphy was not a member of Cumann na mBan. She did not join as she feared losing her income and being unable to gather important information for the IRA. She faced criticism for this as a lack of loyalty which she vehemently denies. #MSPA militarypensions.wordpress.com/2022/12/02/r...

About gender, opinions, legislation interpretation and the fact that women cannot have dependants. "I am satisfied that the Army Pensions Act is only applicable to soldiers as generally understood in the masculine sense" #ArmyPensions #Gender

1k followers! Welcome everyone! Below is a blog post based on a presentation given in Belfast this year on the treatment of the northern veterans of the Irish Revolution and the unique circumstances they faced before and after partition. Part 1: militarypensions.wordpress.com/2024/08/13/1...

This is just one file. One claim. One file among tens of thousands that has suffered constant transfers between offices since the 20s, constant handling for years and a life of bad storage. Your suffering stops here, my 'little' friend. #Archives #Preservation

East Cork Flying Column 1920/21- Desmond (killed 20/2/21)-Higgins (captured 20/2/21)-Glavin (killed 20/2/21)-Dennehy (killed 20/2/21)- Aherne (Vice-Comdt)-Hegarty (killed 20/2/21)-Morrissey (killed 20 Feb 1921)-Hollahan (killed 20/2/1921)-M Moore (killed 20/2/1921)-White (USA)

All our publications....all downloadable for free. The lastest one - A Very Hard Struggle - was published last year but it's one we're very proud of due to the topics chosen by our contributors. Edited by Catriona Crowe and Anne Dolan. www.militaryarchives.ie/en/online-co...

“During the struggle the bomb dropped and exploded”: three deaths in Kerry. National Army soldiers Timothy McMahon, John Murphy and Michael Francis Roche: three men seemingly unconnected until their files were released by MSPA Project. militarypensions.wordpress.com/2024/11/04/d...

MSPA is a big beast in the Military Archives. The new website has been launched but we still need to integrate the collection to the new site. Here comes Phase 2!! We're very excited to work with @communicraft.bsky.social on this.