Eneclann to digitise Irish Military Pension records

Dublin based vendor Eneclann (www.eneclann.ie) has been awarded a contract by the Irish Government's Defence Department to digitise the Military Pension Service Project. This will, in the first instance, seek to make available online pension and medal records relating to the original Irish Republican Army and associated bodies such as the Irish Citizen Army and Cumann na mBan, which fought to remove Ireland from the United Kingdom (which it had been a member of since 1801).

Following Partition in 1921, when dominion status was granted to the 26 counties forming the Irish Free State (but not to the north, which rejoined the UK as 'Northern Ireland'), the old IRA basically split. Over half of the army was reconstituted to form the Free State Army, the Irish Free State's first military force, whilst the rest refused to accept the Treaty provisions and became known as the Irregulars, ultimately taking the country to a tragic civil war which they subsequently lost.

The thirty month digitisation project commences in August, with results due to be placed eventually online at Military Archives website (www.militaryarchives.ie) in time for the centenary of the Easter Rising, in 2016. Further records will also be digitised in due course.

For full details visit Eneclann's site at?www.eneclann.ie/2012/07/military-service-pension-project/?(and congrats to Eneclann!)

Chris

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