'Old IRA' Pensions

[cogito]

Thanks, yes I noticed I seen some of the material online before or quoted in books.

This apparently was a recording project at the time but was this in someway linked to a service pension?

I'm not sure of that Napper - any ideas yourself ? At face value the Witness Statements appear to have been a genuine attempt to document the struggle for independence while the survivors were still in a fit state to give their accounts - though the 'old IRA' pension also relied on statements authenticating the suitability of applicants. The pension thing appears to have been ongoing from the thirties through to the nineteen sixties though - I don't think they're the same documents but I'm sure I read somewhere that they too may be made available online soon...

Might be worth doing some digging around the connection between the two archives to see if there is an overlap...