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| File Reference |
MSP34REF3836
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| Name |
Peter Tuohy |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Islandeady, Castlebar
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Chapel Street, Castlebar
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1890-03-14
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| Date of death |
1972-09-20
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34SP4134; DP28683
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Company Captain
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| Unit |
1 Battalion
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| Company |
C Company (Islandeady)
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| Brigade |
West Mayo Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Patrick Jordan
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| Pension Claim |
Yes |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
Yes |
| Type of Award |
SPASpecial Allowance (DP file)
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF3836 Peter Tuohy.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34SP4134 Peter Tuohy.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP28683 Peter Tuohy.pdf |
| File dates |
02 November 1934 - 29 March 1974
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Peter Tuohy’s unsuccessful application for a military service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934. Subject unsuccessfully applied for service with the Irish Volunteers and the IRA in the periods between 01 April 1917 and 30 September 1923 during the War of Independence, Truce Period and Civil War. Subject was awarded a Service (1917-1921) Medal in 1945, information held on file.
Peter Tuohy states that he was appointed Company Captain of C Company (Islandeady), 1 Battalion, West Mayo Brigade, Irish Volunteers in 1917 under the command of Michael Staunton. During the 1917-19 period, he claims that he took part in drilling; training; collecting arms; anti-Conscription campaign; canvassing for general election and raids on Congested Districts Board for tools and gelignite.
During the War of Independence (January 1919 – July 1921), the subject remained Company Captain (112 members) under the command of Patrick Jordan (1D395). He state that he took part in routine IRA activity and operations including: collecting the Dáil Éireann loan; police duty in connection with the Republican Courts; intelligence work; dispatch work; arms raids; burning of Islandeady Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) Barracks (Easter 1920); helping to form and equip IRA ‘Flying Column’ (Active Service Unit); mobilising for planned ambush which was called off and care of arms dump.
Peter Tuohy was captured by British forces on 15 April 1921 in a round up and interned in Galway Prison and the Rath Camp, the Curragh, County Kildare until 09 December 1921 when he was released as part of the general amnesty for IRA prisoners under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. Subject did not attend any IRA training camps or go into any barracks. He also did not resume his previous role as company captain but remained an IRA member under the command of James Chambers (MSP34REF2993).
Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War, Peter Tuohy states that under the command of Michael Kilroy (MSP34REF839) and Eamon Moane (MSP34REF50) he was engaged in sentry duty; sheltering IRA men on the run; blocking roads; destruction of railway bridges; cutting of telegraph poles and wires and intelligence work.
File includes references in support of the subject’s claim from Michael Kilroy (1941), J Malone (1941), PJ Cannon (1941); typed summary of sworn evidence given by the applicant before the Advisory Committee on 13 March 1941; representations by the Minister for Education [Thomas Derrig] (1941); references in support of Service (1917-1921) Medal application from James Chambers (1945) and for a Special Allowance from Patrick Cannon (1957), Philip Hoban (1957), Anthony Gibbons (1957) and William Mylette (1957).
File DP222924 relates to subject's successful application for a Special Allowance under the Army Pensions Acts in respect of illness or disability. File includes representations by Michael Moran TD (1957); application form; medical report; material relating to overpayment of Special Allowance and recovery of same; signed handwritten report from Social Welfare investigating officers regarding applicant’s financial circumstances (1957-1969); material relating to the payment of the balance of the special allowance and a funeral grant to next of kin following subject’s death on 20 September 1972; solicitor’s correspondence.
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