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| File Reference |
DP7504
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| Name |
Brian Moore |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Rathbride Bridge, Kildare
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| County |
Kildare
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1893
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| Notes |
Date of birth not recorded on file but age at time of death given as 28 years on death certificate
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| Date of death |
1922-12-19
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| Place |
The Curragh, County Kildare, Ireland
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| Associated files in MSPA |
2RB224 (empty file); 2RBSD36; 52APB62; Y102;
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| Related files |
RO513 - nominal roll for C Company, 2 Battalion, 7 (Kildare) Brigade, 1 Eastern Division IRA - lists "B. Moore, Rathbride. (Executed)" and "Brian Moore, Rathbride. Executed." as Company Quartermaster on 1 July 1922.
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| Civilian occupation |
Farmer's son;
Casual labourer;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Private
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| Unit |
Active Service Unit
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| Brigade |
Kildare Brigade
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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 copyY102 Brian Moore.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP7504 Brian Moore.pdf
Scanned/digital copy52APB62 Brian Moore.pdf
Scanned/digital copy2RBSD36 Brian Moore.pdf
Scanned/digital copy2RB224 Brian Moore.pdf |
| File dates |
2 February 1933 - 6 September 1944
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Mary Moore's receipt of a partial dependents' gratuity of £112.10.00 (one hundred and twelve pounds and ten shillings sterling) in 1934 under the Army Pensions Acts in respect of her son IRA Private Brian Moore. File also relates to further unsuccessful applications from Mary Moore in respect of her son under this legislation between 1937 and 1939. File further relates to the pothumous award of a Service (1917-1921) Medal in respect of Brian Moore to his sister Annie Reilly (sic).
Brian Moore died by Military [National Army] execution at the Curragh, County Kildare on 19 December 1922 during the Civil War. Moore had been sentenced to death by Military Court for being in possession, with unnamed others, of rifles, ammunition and detonators at Rathbride, County Kildare on 12 December 1922. According to information on file Brian Moore had served with the IRA from some time in 1919 onwards and during the War of Independence, Truce period and Civil War. According to information on file Patrick Moore and Annie O'Reilly/Reilly nee Moore, brother and sister of Brian Moore also had service during the independence struggle.
RO513 - nominal roll for C Company, 2 Battalion, 7 (Kildare) Brigade, 1 Eastern Division IRA - lists "B. Moore, Rathbride. (Executed)" and "Brian Moore, Rathbride. Executed." as Company Quartermaster on 1 July 1922.
File includes: original handwritten and typed material submitted and signed by Mary Moore in support of her application; signed handwritten reports and related documentation from Customs and Excise investigating officers, Newbridge and Naas, County Kildare, regarding the circumstances and means of the Moore family and the degree of dependency of Mary Moore on her son at the time of the latter's death; representations on behalf of Mary Moore from Thomas Harris TD; signed handwritten 3 page letter dated 19 August 1937 from Annie O'Reilly (sic), sister of Brian Moore, regarding the arrest and execution of her brother, the raid on and occupation of the [Moore] family home by National Army forces, and relating her own arrest and internment during the Civil War and her eighteen (18) day hunger strike during that imprisonment - attached is handwritten list of items, including money, allegedly taken by National Army forces from the Moore family home on 12 December 1922; signed handwritten statement regarding Brian Moore's service and death from Patrick Brennan; signed handwritten statements verifying Brian Moore's IRA service in connection with the award of a posthumous Service Medal from Colonel J. Lillis, M. O'Riain and William Byrne.
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