Person:Ailbhe Ó'Monacháin (1)

File Reference MSP34REF3926 Name Ailbhe Ó Monacháin Gender male Maiden/Other names Monahan, Alfred

Monaghan, Alfred

MacSweeney, Joseph

MacSuibhne, Seosaimh

Address detail Street 63 Bóthar Beaumont, Baile Átha Cliath (63 Beaumont Road, Dublin)

County Dublin

Country Ireland

Address detail Street "Cill Coluim", Bóthair Rathbeil, Sórd Coluimchille, ("Cill Coluim", Rathbeale Road, Swords)

County Dublin

Country Ireland

Date of birth 1889

Date of death 1967-07-31

Associated files in MSPA 34D2550;

Civilian occupation Teacher; Easter rising service Yes Easter rising location/place Derrydonnell, County Galway

Oranmore, County Galway

RIC Barracks, Oranmore, County Galway

Agricultural Station, Athenry, County Galway

Moyode Castle, County Galway

Limepark, County Galway

Organisation Irish Volunteers Rank Unknown

Brigade Galway Brigade

Commanding Officer(s) Liam Mellows

Organisation Irish Republican Army Rank Captain

Unit 5 Battalion

Brigade 3 Cork Brigade

Commanding Officer(s) Thomas Kelleher; Thomas Hales; Thomas Barry; Christopher Byrne (Prison);

Pension Claim Yes Award Pension Yes Army Pensions Act 1923/1953 No Military Service Pensions Acts 1924 No Military Service Pensions Acts 1934 Yes Grade D Notes Awarded 7 and 1/2 years service for pension purposes in April 1956 following subject's decision to reactivate the claim which he had withdrawn in July 1942 - subject was awarded 6 and 61/126 years service in

July 1942 under his initial application.

Military Service Pensions Acts 1949 No Digital file Scanned/digital copyWMSP34REF3926AILBHEOMONACHAIN.pdf

Scanned/digital copyW34D25550AILBHEOMONACHAIN.pdf File dates 16 November 1934 - 7 August 1991

Subject Information File relates to Ailbhe Ó Monacháin's (Alfred Monahan/Alfred Monaghan) receipt of a military service pension in respect of his service with the Irish Volunteers during the week of 23 to 29 April 1916 and with the IRA from 1922 to 1923 during the Truce Period and Civil War. Ailbhe Ó Monacháin also claimed unsuccessfully for service from 1 to 23 April 1916 and from 1 May 1916 to 1922. According to subject and references Ó Monacháin served as an Irish Volunteer organiser in County Cavan until served with a deportation order and imprisoned by the British authorities from October 1915 to January 1916. On his release he worked as an organiser in County Galway and assisted in preparations there for the Easter Rising going on the run after another deportation order was made against him in March. Ailbhe Ó Monacháin evaded arrest/capture after the surrender and from 1916 to 1922 he claims to have acted in various capacities for the Irish Volunteers and IRA in counties Cork, Wexford and Dublin - service was not awarded for this period. During 1922 Ó Monacháin was appointed IRA Brigade Store-Keeper, based at Charlesfort, Kinsale, County Cork and took part in fighting there during the Civil War against National Army forces in September of that year and also at Ballinhassig and Upton until arrested early in 1923. He was interned, released and rearrested in [December] and released early in 1924. File includes: signed handwritten and typed statements regarding subject's service from Ailbhe Ó Monacháin, Donncadh Mac Con Uladh (Denis McCullough), Thomas Hales, Sean Broderick T. D., Eamon Corbett and Michael Walsh; typed summary (3 pages) and transcript (15 pages) of sworn statement made by Ailbhe Ó Monacháin before the Advisory Committee, Military Service Pensions Act, 1934 on 1 March 1938; handwritten notes regarding discussion of claimant's case with Liam Deasy, Gearoid O' Sullivan, M. Neilan, T. Crofts and E. Sisk; material relating to subject's withdrawal of his application in 1942 and his reactivation of this claim in 1950 including internal Department of Defence memos and copy and original correspondence involving officials of the Department of Defence, Office fo the Attorney General and the Department of Finance discussing claimant's and other related cases; material relating to subject's position as a teacher employed by the County Dublin Vocational Education Committee; material relating to claimant's application for a 1916 Medal and Service (1917-1921) Medal for himself and a 1916 Medal for his brother Cathal (Charles Monaghan/Monahan); material relating to subject's widow and daughter - partly closed; and handwritten notes/memos from [Department of Defence] officials relating to signed typed letter (4 May 1991) from Theo Snoddy addressed to Government Information Services, requesting information regarding Michael O' Brien/Ailbhe Ó Monacháin for inclusion in "A Dictionary of 20th Century Irish Artists"; - See more at: http://mspcsearch.militaryarchives.ie/detail.aspx#sthash.wEuYGhN5.dpuf