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| File Reference |
2D71
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| Name |
Sean Higgins |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Foxford
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| County |
Mayo
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Notes |
Date of birth not on file
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| Date of death |
1922-09-16
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| Place |
Glenamoy, County Mayo
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| Associated files in MSPA |
F234;
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| Related files |
2D238 Thomas Henry Healy; 2D36 Edward Crabbe; 2D62 William Joseph Gill; 2D353 Patrick Bray; MSP34REF839 Michael Kilroy; 2D141 Thomas Rawl;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Unknown
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| Unit |
2 Battalion
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| Brigade |
North Mayo Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
P. A. Dunleavy;
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| Organisation |
Óglaigh na hÉireann/National Forces |
| Rank |
Captain
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| Unit |
2 Battalion
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| Brigade |
North Mayo Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Patrick William Moran;
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| Pension Claim |
No |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
Yes |
| Type of Award |
OTHOther
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| Notes |
Partial dependents' gratuity
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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 copyW2D71SEANHIGGINS.pdf
Scanned/digital copyWF234SEANHIGGINS.pdf |
| File dates |
4 November 1922 - 21 June 1928
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| Subject Information |
File relates to William Higgins's receipt of a partial dependents' gratuity of £75 (seventy five pounds sterling) in respect of his son Captain Sean Higgins of the National Forces.
Captain Sean Higgins was killed at Glenamoy, County Mayo in an engagement with Irregulars (anti-Treaty IRA) during the Civil War on 16 September 1922. According to evidence on this file and that of 2D238 Thomas Henry Healy, Sean Higgins was one of up to possibly six members of the National Forces killed in this engagement. It is variously stated on these files that the National Forces party were engaged in an attempt to capture Michael Kilroy and/or were attacked by an IRA party led by Michael Kilroy MSP34REF839.
Sean Higgins was not an attested member of the National Army at the time of his death. He had served with the IRA during the War of Independence. According to material on file Sean Higgins' had been awarded compensation of £350 (three hundred and fifty pounds sterling) plus costs in respect of personal injuries sustained by him at the hands of British forces in Foxford, County Mayo on 27 May 1921. This award was paid to William Higgins's in December 1923.
File includes: signed typed standard report of 26 January 1924 from Defence Forces Adjutant General Lieutenant General Gearóid O'Suilleavain to the Ministry of Defence, Army Pensions Department regarding the date and circumstances of Sean Higgins' death; material relating to Garda Síochána investigations into the circumstances and means of the Higgins family and the degree of dependency of William Higgins on his son Sean at the time of the latter's death; typed copy letter of 24 September 1924 from P. A. Dunlevy (sic) to Defence Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General P. McMahon (sic) regarding William Higgins's application for compensation in respect of his son's death, Sean Higgins's IRA and National Forces service, the assault on Sean Higgins' led by a Captain Grant of the Argyll Regiment of the British Army on 27 May [1921] - Higgins was allegedly taken by British force to a bridge overlooking the river Moy where he was stripped, painted in the tricolour, whipped, and then thrown into the river from which he was recovered in semi conscious state - and the circumstances of the Higgins' family at the time of writing; representations (17 July 1925) to President W. T. Cosgrave by Professor M. Tierney TD regarding the Higgins' family and in particular the possibility of finding employment for [Ellie] Higgins, sister of Sean Higgins and also enclosing typed copy letter of 13 July 1925 from P. A. Dunleavy to Professor Tierney on the same subject; and material relating to William Higgins's unsuccessful application under the Army Pensions Act, 1927.
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