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| File Reference |
MSP34REF11828
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| Name |
Martha Murphy |
| Gender |
female |
| Maiden/Other names |
Kelly
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| Address detail |
| Street |
1 Leinster Avenue, North Strand, Dublin
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| County |
Dublin
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1897
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| Date of death |
1943-09-15
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| Notes |
Died of cardiac failure
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34E3527
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| Related files |
MSP34REF67 (Michael Murphy, subject's husband)
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| Easter rising service |
Yes |
| Easter rising location/place |
Liberty Hall, Beresford Place, Dublin
General Post Office, O'Connell Street, Dublin
Imperial Hotel, O'Connell Street, Dublin
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| Organisation |
Irish Citizen Army |
| Rank |
Unknown
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Commandant James Connolly; John Hanratty
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| Pension Claim |
Yes |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
Yes |
| Grade |
E |
| Notes |
Awarded 4 43/500 years for pensions purposes.
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyWMSP34REF11828MARTHAMURPHY.pdf
Scanned/digital copyW34E3527MARTHAMURPHY.pdf |
| File dates |
25 July 1935 - 2 November 1943
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| Subject Information |
File relates to the successful pension claim of Martha Murphy covering the period from Easter Rising to March 1918. She became a member of the Irish Citizen Army in 1913.
She was mobilised and reported to Liberty Hall on Easter Sunday and reported there again on Monday, prepared food and attended a couple of wounded under the instructions of Dr Kathleen Lynn. She went to the GPO in the afternoon and on the Tuesday, followed a party to the Imperial Hotel (she mentioned that Frank Thornton was in charge there). She remembered attending to Paddy Mahon and Noel Lemass.
She was arrested near the church on Marlborough Street, taken to the Custom House. At her release (May) from Kilmainham, it is mentioned that she lost her work and her home and got some assistance from the National Aid.
In 1917 she worked in J.J. Walsh's shop on Blessington Street and was the recipient of messages to and from Mountjoy gaol. She left this work in 1918 but retained her membership to the ICA, at which point she got married to the OC of the 2 Battalion (Michael Murphy).
The file contains the subject's original pension application and the sworn statement made advisory committee on 23 November 1937 as well as reference letters (handwritten and typed copies) supporting her application from Kathleen Lynn, Wallis Carpenter (Captain Citizen Army Scouts), Frank Thornton, Harry Colley, Frank Teeling, George Oman, Patrick Mahon, Sean Hayes and Michael Murphy, in which in mentions the subject's fourteen (14) children. Those are not mentioned on the form of statutory declaration. Her husband was 47 when she died.
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