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| File Reference |
MSP34REF11704
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| Name |
Hanna Broderick |
| Gender |
female |
| Maiden/Other names |
Sheehan
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Templeglantine
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| County |
Limerick
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
New Street, Abbeyfeale
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| County |
Limerick
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Shanbally, Abbeyfeale
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| County |
Limerick
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Notes |
Date of birth not recorded on file
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| Date of death |
1973-03-04
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34E6012
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Cumann na mBan |
| Rank |
Captain
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| Unit |
2 Battalion
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| Company |
Templeglantine Branch
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| Brigade |
West Limerick Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Hanna Broderick (self); Maurice Harnett; Agnes Sullivan
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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 1 and 1/2 years service for pension purposes in 1942
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF11704 Hanna Broderick.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34E6012 Hanna Broderick.pdf |
| File dates |
7 March 1935 - 25 April 1976
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Hanna Broderick’s receipt of a military service pension in respect of her service with the Cumann na mBan in the service periods between 1 April 1920 and 11 July 1921 23 during the War of Independence and the Truce period. Applicant also claimed unsuccessfully for service in the periods between 1 April 1917 and 31 March 1920.
As Captain of the Templeglantine Branch, 2 Battalion, West Limerick Brigade, Cumann na mBan, it is stated that the applicant took part in general Cumann na mBan activity during the War of Independence (January 1919 – July 1921) including: fund-raising; organising dances; first-aid training; sending parcels of food and clothes to IRA prisoners in Mountjoy Jail, Dublin and Spike Island, Cork; dispatch work; providing clothes, cigarettes and boots to members of the ‘Flying Column’ (Active Service Unit); scout work including for IRA after attack on Crown Forces at Abbeyfeale, County Limerick; active duty for IRA whilst they lay in ambush for Crown Forces at Barna, County Limerick and Newcastlewest, County Limerick; performed guard duty over British Army General Lucas for a week in her home after his capture in Cork by Liam Lynch (DP5482) and helped with the burial of Liam Scully (1D270) in Templeglantine, County Limerick who was killed during an attack on Kilmallock RIC Barracks, County Limerick.
Hanna Broderick had no Civil War (June 1922 – May 1923) service.
File includes signed handwritten and typed statements regarding subject's service from Gearóid McAuliffe (1941) and Maurice Harnett (1941).
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