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[1950’s] MS. ‘Re. Resolution re. IRA pensions’ containing ‘suggested points for speaker who was to raise the matter at the Fianna Fail Annual Convention’. Concerns the implementation of the 1924 and 1934 military service acts and the provision of pensions to those who fought in the anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War. 3pp 1973 (1922 - 1923) TS. memorandum Re. Pension Appeal, Riobárd Langford (Ref. 31293). Relates to Langford’s application for regrading of his pension due to his special services during 1922-23 in connection with the mobile field printing press. He was selected by Headquarters ‘…as a result of efficiency and competency displayed to Command officers of IRA over a period of years in many spheres of Fianna, Irish Volunteers, IRA
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organisation and activity and my known technical and practical experience of the printing and journalistic sides…’. Describes his activities in this period of the Civil War in printing propaganda materials including 42 editions of ‘War News’. 3pp 26 10 October 1973 TS. abridged memorandum re. pension appeal by Riobárd Langford (Ref. 31293). Outlines Langford’s career in the Irish Volunteers and IRA including service during the Civil War where he was in charge of mobile printing press. 2pp
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