Ireland’s Easter Rising: archives reveal hardship faced by the families of those killed in 1916
Lindsey Earner-Byrne
On November 26, 1923, a woman named Anne McCormack applied for a military dependent’s pension on the grounds of her husband, James McCormack’s death. He had been a soldier in the Irish citizen army, under the socialist and revolutionary leader, James Connolly. This group was committed to the establishment of a workers’ republic. Its members participated in the week-long armed insurrection of 1916 known as the Easter Rising.
James McCormack was shot in the head on the second day of the rising,...