Irish Military Archives website currently down

The Republic of Ireland's Military Archives website at militaryireland.ie is currently down, and according to my Pharos students, has been for about three days. 

Hopefully this is a temporary glitch, and that service will be resumed normally. 

In the meantime, the 1922 National Army census, hosted on the site, can also be searched on both Ancestry (www.ancestry.co.uk) and FindmyPast (www.findmypast.co.uk).

Update: As of Monday 9th May, that's the site back up again at https://www.militaryarchives.ie/en/home/.

Chris

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Ireland's Military Archives updates Military Service Pensions Collection

From Ireland's Military Archives (www.militaryarchives.ie), news of the latest update to its Military Service Pensions Collection:

May 2021 Release

The May 2021 release is the tenth release of records from the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection (MSPC). The files relate to claims lodged by 1,120 individuals/veterans or by their dependants and contain new information on the War of Independence and the Civil War. This release contains over 2,500 new files and brings the total of fully digitised files relating to individual claims to 34,500, representing over 11,840 individual entries on the MSPC database.

Taking into account all MSPC file series, approximately 104,000 files have now been catalogued and available for viewing either online or in the Military Archives reading room (in the case of the Medals series).

The files released include:

- 869 claims lodged by women
- 64 individuals from Northern Ireland (41 women)
- 15 wound pensions awarded
- 237 successful claims (service/wounds, etc.)
- 9 successful claims under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924 (National Army veterans)
- 152 successful claims under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934

View the full list of files released on this occasion: HERE 

To search the records visit https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/military-service-pensions-collection-1916-1923

(Source: https://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/military-service-pensions-collection-1916-1923/release-history/may-2021-release @mspcblog)

Chris

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Further release of Ireland's Military Service Pensions Committee claims

From Ireland's Military Archives (www.militaryarchives.ie), the latest release of Military Service Pension Collection records, with over 2 million pages of content now scanned as part of the project:

November 2020 Release

The November 2020 release is the 9th release from the Military Service (1916-1923) Pensions Collection.
The files relate to claims lodged by 1,170 individuals, or by their dependants, and contain new information on the War of Independence and the Civil War.
This release brings the number of individuals whose files are now available online to over 10,720 entries (representing over 32,000 files).
Taking into account all the MSPC file series (whether available online or in the Military Archives), over 100,000 files have been processed individually by the Project team to date.
The files released include:
 - 139 successful service pensions awarded under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924 (National Army applicants/Pro-Treaty).
 - 604 files of claimants applying under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934
 - 554 applications under Army Pensions Acts (from 1923 onwards), including wounds and Special Allowances linked to disability pensions. 

A full list of those named in this release can be found at http://www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/MSPC/2020/Release_names.pdf

(Source: http://www.militaryarchives.ie/collections/online-collections/military-service-pensions-collection-1916-1923/release-history/november-2020-release)

Chris

My next 5 week Scotland 1750-1850: Beyond the Old Parish Registers course starts November 2nd - see https://www.pharostutors.com/details.php?coursenumber=302. My book Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is now out, also available are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.