Latest tranche of files from Irish revolution go online

More than 250,000 relatives and researchers have read military pensions and other files of participants in the Irish revolution since they were placed online last year.

The latest tranche of files for almost 900 men and women who took part from 1916 through to the Civil War are released today.

Among the Military Service Pensions Collection (MSPC) files online this morning are those of the father, aunt, and uncles of President Michael D Higgins, who took part in the War of Independence in Clare and Cork. Like many other Irish families, they were split politically over the December 1921 Treaty with Britain that led to Civil War in 1922 and 1923.