Military Services Pensions Collection

The Military Services Pensions Collection is the single most important archival collection relating to Ireland's revolutionary period, comprising hundreds of thousands of individual accounts of the activities of nationalists from 1916 to 1923.

The collection records the personal commitment and sacrifice by the men and women who fought to  gain independence for Ireland.

These records provide a window into every parish and townland in our country and the activities undertaken by ordinary people striving to achieve Nationhood.

Paula O'Dornan, Senior Executive Librarian,  Westmeath Libraries was delighted to receive the series of the Defence Forces Military Archives Pensions Collection from Noel O Callaghan Regt. Sgt. Major rtd. These items will be available to view in the Local Studies Department in Mullingar Library.