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| File Reference |
MSP34REF4311
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| Name |
William Dwyer |
| Gender |
male |
| Address detail |
| Street |
Crowl / Crowle, Cloughjordan
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| County |
Tipperary
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1900
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| Notes |
Exact date of birth not recorded on file
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| Date of death |
1966-07-17
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34D1515; DP3822; X100; 1RB3160
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| Related files |
MSP34REF5269 Mary Dwyer (Sister)
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| Civilian occupation |
Family public house and grocery business, Crowl, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, Ireland;
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
First Lieutenant
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| Unit |
2 Battalion
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| Company |
C Company
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| Brigade |
1 Tipperary Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Sean Kenny; James O'Meara; Sean Gaynor; Paddy McDonnell
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Company Captain
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| Unit |
2 Battalion
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| Company |
C Company
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| Brigade |
1 Tipperary Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Sean Gaynor
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| Organisation |
Irish Republican Army |
| Rank |
Unknown
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| Unit |
Actove Service Unit
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| Brigade |
North Tipperary Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Sean Gaynor
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| Pension Claim |
Yes |
| Award Pension |
Yes |
| Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 |
Yes |
| Type of Award |
WGWound gratuity
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| Notes |
Awarded £20 wound gratuity in 1935 under the Army Pensions Act, 1932.
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 |
No |
| Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 |
Yes |
| Grade |
D |
| Notes |
Awarded 5 and 1/2 years service for pension purposes in 1938 following appeal
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF4311 William Dwyer.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34D1515 William Dwyer.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP3822 William Dwyer.pdf
Scanned/digital copy1RB3160 William Dwyer.pdf
Scanned/digital copyX100 William Dwyer.pdf |
| File dates |
1 November 1933 - 16 February 1988
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| Subject Information |
File relates to William Dwyer’s receipt of a military service pension in respect of her service with the IRA in the service periods between 1 April 1920 and 30 September 1923 during the War of Independence, Truce period and Civil War. Applicant also claimed unsuccessfully for service in the periods between 1 April 1917 and 31 March 1920.
William Dwyer states that he took part in election campaigns in County Waterford and County Laois (1918) and helped to stop the “Ormond hounds” in protest against the treatment of Republican prisoners (1919).
Attached to C Company, 2 Battalion, 1 Tipperary Brigade, IRA, it is stated that the applicant took part in a number of IRA operations and general activity during the War of Independence (January 1919 – July 1921) including: collecting arms and ammunition; training in the use of arms; planning an ambush at Knocknacree, Cloughjordan (no date); raid of Income Tax Office, Borrisokane (no date); burning of disused Ballinderry RIC Barracks (April 1920); attack on Borrisokane RIC Barracks (June 1920); arms-raid of Emill Castle (June 1920); arms-raid of O’Brien’s, Newtown, Cloughjordan during which he was shot in the arm and needed four weeks treatment in the Mater hospital, Dublin (3 June 1920); police duty at [Curivheen] (July 1920); armed guard duty on Munster & Leinster Bank (October/November 1920); raiding for trenching tools (October 1920); guarding prisoners for three weeks at Ballycapple, Cloughjordan (no date); procuring Company arms and handing them over to Battalion officer on the night of shooting of a ‘Black and Tan’ (RIC) in Cloughjordan (November 1920); attack on RIC at Cloughjordan (November 1920); destroying Belfast Boycott goods (December 1920); Middlewalk ambush (February 1921); engagement with Crown Forces at Glenaguile, Toomevara (May 1921); preparing for ambush at Kilfadda (15 May 1921); ambush at Kylebeg, Cloughjordan (June 1921) and ambush at Modreeny during which rifles and ammunition were captured by the IRA (June 1921).
Following the Modreeny ambush, the applicant states that his family home, public house and grocery business were burned by Crown Forces.
During the Truce period, William Dwyer states that he performed police duty at banks and railway stations in Cloughjordan and Nenagh; took part in an IRA training camp at Glenaguile (September 1921) and entered Cloughjordan Barracks with Republican forces (October 1921).
Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War (June 1922 – May 1923), the applicant states that he did dispatch work; transported munitions; raided for engineering tools (1922); prepared ambush at Kylerue and assisted with the blowing up of Kilruane Railway. William Dwyer claims that he was arrested by the National Army in August 1922, taken to Nenagh where he took part in a four-day hunger strike; transferred to Maryborough Gaol (Portlaoise Prison), County Laois during which he took part in the burning of the prison on 28 August 1922. On that night, several IRA members were shot by National forces and one man named Hickey (DP4395) from Dublin was killed. Applicant was transferred to Tintown No 3 Camp, Curragh, County Kildare and released in October 1923.
William Dwyer states that his family were forced to sleep in an “old galvanised shed” which brought on sickness that he alleges led to the death of his mother in November 1923. Claims that the family home was only rebuilt in November 1924.
Material on file states that William Dwyer married Mary Dwyer (nee McCormack) on 9 November 1927.
File DP3822 relates to subject's successful application for a wound pension or gratuity under the Army Pensions Act, 1932. He was awarded a £20 wound gratuity in 1935. On 3 June 1920, the applicant took part in a raid for arms on the home of Mr. O’Brien, Newtown, Cloughjordan, County Tipperary. Occupants in the house opened fire on the IRA unit and the subject received a gunshot wound in the right forearm. IRA Volunteers Michael Horan and James O’Meara were also wounded. The subject was removed to the home of Joseph Cleary, Shinrone, County Offaly where he was seen by a doctor before transfer to the Mater Hospital, Dublin where he spent two weeks. File includes completed application form; doctor’s notes and medical report. File also contains hand-written statements in support of the subject’s claim from Michael Horan (1935); James O’Meara (1935); Sean Gaynor (1935); William Tierney (1935); John Williams (1937) and John Kissane on behalf of Dan Breen TD (1938).
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