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| File Reference |
MSP34REF3344
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| Name |
Agnes Gallagher |
| Gender |
female |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Bridge Street, Westport
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1863
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| Notes |
Date of death not recorded on file
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34E5871; DP313; 1RB1337
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| Civilian occupation |
Music Teacher;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Cumann na mBan |
| Unit |
3 Battalion
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| Company |
Westport Branch
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| Brigade |
West Mayo Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Teresa Moane; Agnes Gallagher (applicant herself)
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| Pension Claim |
Yes |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
Yes |
| Grade |
E |
| Notes |
Awarded 3 and 1/2 years of service for pension purposes in February 1942
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyWMSP34REF3344AgnesGallagher.pdf
Scanned/digital copyW34E5871AgnesGallagher.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP313 Agnes Gallagher.pdf
Scanned/digital copy1RB1337 Agnes Gallagher.pdf |
| File dates |
21 January 1935 - 30 October 1942
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Agnes Gallagher's successful application for a military service pension in respect of her service with Cumann na mBan for the period from 1 April 1919 to 30 September 1923 (applicant claims service from 1 April 1916 - including Easter week - to 30 September 1923). Awarded 3 and 1/2 years of service for pension purposes in February 1942. States she was acting President of the Westport Branch, following the marriage of Miss Moane in 1918. Applicant appeals for rank.
Applicant joined Cumann na mBan in 1915 and was first appointed Captain of the Westport Branch. Her pre-Truce activities involved raising funds through the organisation of concerts (c.1916), working with the Irish Republican Brotherhood (of which the members were meeting in her house; she names Tom Derrig, Ned Moane, Arthur Griffith and Michael Kilroy). Her place was also the dispatch centre for Westport. She then provided office accommodation for Courts of Dail (courts held in Westport town). House was raided at that time. Her music school had to close down as the children were afraid to come in. Up until the Truce she provided clothes and food to the West Mayo A.S.U. and continued dispatch work. Owing to much hostility from Auxiliaries, she had to leave her home in November 1921 until Christmas. She organised Cumann na mBan in the Islands and in Islandmore and Clew Bay. Resumed dispatch and communication work when returned home. She also kept arms and ammunition. During the Civil War, she continued to provide food, clothes and ammunition to I.R.A. men while continuing to operate a 'communication station' in her house.
She was arrested in January 1923 and interned in Kilmainham where she participated in hunger strikes. She states she lost her eye-sight there. She specifies in her statement that she could not work again after that.
The file contains original, filled in application form (dated 21 January 1935) , general correspondence relating to the application and payment of the pension; reference letters from Michael Kilroy, Joseph McBride, T.O Deirg, E.Moane, J.Malone, P.J. Davey, John Gibbons, Charles Gavan, Thomas Kittrick, Joseph Baker, J.A.Madden ; life certificate dated February 1942; typed summary of evidence and typed sworn statement made before Advisory Committee on 23 July 1937; typed and handwritten statement of activities; Mayo News dated 5 August 1916.
File DP313: contains material relating to an application for a special allowance under the Army Pensions Act, 1943/1949. Applicant claims for loss of sight, broken ribs, laceration of liver, neurasthenia and rheumatism, as a result of injury sustained in Kilmainham in 1923. However the claim was rejected as disability was not deemed to be attributable to her service. File 1RB1337 contains a Service Certificate and references from Aoife Taaffe (1933-34), Bridie Clyne (1933), Treasa Ni Bhríain (Treasa O’Brien) (1933) and Joseph L Baker (1933).
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