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| File Reference |
MSP34REF44315
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| Name |
Brigid Kennedy |
| Gender |
female |
| Maiden/Other names |
McGrath
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Turnpike Road, Newport
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| County |
Tipperary
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Kilmaguage / Kilmaquage, Newport
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| County |
Tipperary
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
45 Mary Mount, Ferrybank
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| County |
Waterford
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
14 Loder Park, Mount Argus Road, Harold's Cross, Dublin
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| County |
Dublin
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
6 Luby Road, Inchicore, Dublin
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| County |
Dublin
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Fanit, Newport
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| County |
Tipperary
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
Ballydrennan, Ballycommon, Nenagh
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| County |
Tipperary
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
40 Summer Hill, Nenagh
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| County |
Tipperary
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Address detail |
| Street |
9 Knight Crescent, Tyone, Nenagh
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| County |
Tipperary
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| Country |
Ireland
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| Date of birth |
1902-01-28
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| Date of death |
1988-01-17
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| Associated files in MSPA |
34E5691; DP20487
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| Related files |
MSP34REF15663 (Mary McGrath, sister); MSP34REF60921 (Sarah Ryan, sister)
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| Easter rising service |
No |
| Organisation |
Cumann na mBan |
| Rank |
Unknown
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| Unit |
6 Battalion
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| Company |
Newport Branch
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| Brigade |
1 Tipperary Brigade
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| Commanding Officer(s) |
Annie (Coleman) Duggan
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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 2 and 5/12 years service for pension purposes in 1941
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| Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 |
No |
| Digital file |
Scanned/digital copyMSP34REF44315 Brigid Kennedy.pdf
Scanned/digital copy34E5691 Brigid Kennedy.pdf
Scanned/digital copyDP20487 Brigid Kennedy.pdf |
| File dates |
4 June 1935 - 19 February 1988
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| Subject Information |
File relates to Brigid Kennedy’s receipt of a military service pension in respect of her service with Cumann na mBan in the service periods between 1 April 1920 and 30 September 1923 during the War of Independence, the Truce period and Civil War. Applicant also claimed unsuccessfully for service in the periods between 1 April 1917 and 31 March 1920.
Brigid Kennedy (née McGrath) states that her two sisters Mary McGrath (MSP34REF15663) and Sarah Ryan (née McGrath) (MSP34REF60921) were active with Cumann na mBan.
The applicant claims that her brother IRA Volunteer John McGrath was captured by the authorities in early 1920 and was incarnated in an English prison. Brigid Kennedy states that he died circa 1936. Further claims that her other brother IRA Volunteer Tom McGrath joined and fought with an Active Service Unit (ASU) during the War of Independence.
Brigid Kennedy states that she joined the Newport Branch of Cumann na mBan in Tipperary in April 1916. Claims that she gave word to the ‘Shannon Battalion’ of the Irish Volunteers a week before the Easter Rising that they should be ready to go to Limerick to fight to “presumably to take pressure off Dublin”.
Attached to the Newport Branch, 6 Battalion, 1 Tipperary 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: keeping an arms dump of revolvers, rifles and ammunition in her home; supplying first-aid kits to IRA Volunteers before the Lackamore ambush (9 April 1920); supplying food and clothing to 35 men of an IRA Active Service Unit (ASU) (9 December 1920); providing intelligence and the gun that was used to kill District Inspector Biggs at Coolboreen, Newport, Tipperary [May 1921] and organising dances to raise money for the IRA.
During the Truce period, the applicant states that she nursed IRA Volunteers Paddy Ryan (Lacken) and William Lane.
Taking the anti-Treaty side in the Civil War (June 1922 – May 1923), Brigid Kenney claims that her home was used as the headquarters of the North Tipperary Flying Column (Active Service Unit) under the command of P. McDonnell and the East Limerick Flying Column (Active Service Unit) under the command of Sean O’Carroll.
Brigid Kennedy states that she emigrated to the United States of America in autumn 1924.
File includes signed handwritten and typed statements regarding subject's service from John McGrath, O/C of A Company, 6 Battalion, 1 Tipperary Brigade (Undated); EJ O’Leary (1940); Sean Gaynor (1941); PF O’Brien (Undated) and Sean O’Carroll (1940). Representations were made on behalf of the applicant by Dan Breen TD (1955). File further contains a typed summary made by the applicant before the Advisory Committee on 18 April 1941.
Material on file shows that Bridget Kennedy married Michael Kennedy on 27 June 1927.
File also contains material relating to Brigid Kennedy’s unsuccessful application for a Special Allowance under the Army Pensions Acts including: completed application form; a copy of the applicant’s baptismal certificate (1902); doctor’s notes and a signed handwritten report from Social Welfare investigating officers regarding applicant’s financial circumstances (1954) - closed. Representations were made on behalf of the applicant by Dan Breen TD (1955).
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