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File Reference MSP34REF52791
Name Bride K Sheridan
Gender female
Address detail
Street Linen Hall Street, Castlebar
County Mayo
Country Ireland
Notes Date of birth not recorded on file
Notes Date of death not recorded on file
Associated files in MSPA 34SP51673
Easter rising service No
Organisation None
Pension Claim Yes
Award Pension No
Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 No
Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 No
Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 No
Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 No
Digital file Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF52791 Bride K Sheridan.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34SP51673 Bride K Sheridan.pdf
File dates 03 July 1936 - 25 January 1941
Subject Information File relates to Bride K Sheridan’s unsuccessful application for a military service pension under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934. Applicant claimed membership of Cumann na mBan in the service periods between 01 April 1916 and 30 September 1923 during the War of Independence, Truce period and Civil War. Bride K Sheridan states that she was attached to the Castlebar Branch, Cumann na mBan in County Mayo from 1916 under the command of James Chambers. Claims that she was engaged in dispatch work and supplying cigarettes, food and clothes to IRA members on the run during the War of Independence (January 1919 - July 1921). From 1921, she states that she was active in the Newport area, County Mayo under the command of Eamon Moane and once had to cycle 20 miles to notify an IRA ‘Flying Column’ (Active Service Unit) that British forces were approaching. Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War (June 1922 - May 1923), Bride K Sheridan claims that she was active in 1923 in Islandeady, County Mayo under the command of Mark Killilea and refers to an incident when a train was held up by IRA forces and arms taken from [National Army] soldiers. Bride K Sheridan did not appear before the Advisory Committee and did not provide any references.