50,000 Rising and War of Independence military records made available

Family members of nearly 50,000 men and women who took part in the 1916 Rising or War of Independence can access files relating to their service for the first time.

The records dating from the 1940s onward are also now available at the Military Archives to researchers of the Irish revolution.

They will offer further evidence of individuals and incidents in the period up to the Civil War of 1922-23. Previous Military Archives collections relating to applications for military service pensions were digitised and can be accessed online, with work on those files continuing in the facility at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Dublin.