Congratulations on release of Irish Revolution statements

The Military Archives, in collaboration with the National Archives, are to be congratulated for their digitisation of a substantial proportion of the Bureau of Military History collection.

Some 1,773 witness statements comprising over 35,000 pages, 42 sets of photographs and 13 voice recordings covering the revolutionary period in Ireland up to the Truce of 1921 are now freely available online.

Contrary to some erroneous media reports, the entire contents have not been digitised. Only a sample of the bureau’s voluminous Contemporary Documents collection was released online because of the understandable budgetary and time constraints.