Talk:Michael Staines

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Name: Michael Joseph Staines
Birth Year: 1885
Death Year: 1955
Source:

Modern Irish Lives. Dictionary of 20th-century Irish biography. Edited by Louis McRedmond. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. (ModIrLi)

Military Service Pensions Collection

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Name: Michael Staines / Mícheál de Staíneas
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1885
Address Detail: 235 North Circular Road, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Civilian Occupation: Shop Assistant, Henshaw's, Christchurch Place, Dublin City, County Dublin; Organiser, National Aid; Employee, New Ireland Assurance; Employee, Central Wholesale Manufacturers Agency; Easter Rising Place: General Post Office, O'Connell Street, Dublin
Rank: Captain
Pay Grade: E
Death Date: 26 Oct 1955
File Dates: 11 Feb 1925
File Reference: 24SP6787

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Subject Information: File includes material referring to Michael Staines’s receipt of a military service pension in respect of his service with the Irish Volunteers, IRA, National Army and Garda Síochána from 1 April 1916 through the Easter Rising, War of Independence, Truce Period and Civil War, up to his resignation from the post of Garda Commissioner on 17 September 1922. Michael Staines served as: a member of Patrick Pearse's staff, member of the Executive of the Irish Volunteers, Quartermaster General of the Irish Volunteers and IRA (until succeeded by Fintan Murphy summer 1920), Liaison Officer for Mayo and Galway during the Truce Period and first Commissioner of the Garda Síochána. File also contains: signed statements supporting subject's claims from Diarmuid O' hÉigceartuigh (Diarmuid O' Hegarty), Eamon Morcan and Richard Mulcahy; and material relating to: subject's successful attempt to have his service with Garda Síochána recognised as "active service" as defined under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924; his wife's unsuccessful application for a pension or gratuity following his death; and to his three sons, daughter, three daughters in law and one grand daughter.

Evidence for Joseph

Marriage

Name: Michael Joseph Staines
Date of Registration: Dec. Q. 1922
Registration District: Dublin South, Ireland
Volume: 2
Page Number: 501
FHL Film Number: 101575

Michael Joseph Staines
Shelia Cullen

Death

Name: Michael J Staines
Date of Registration: Dec. Q. 1955
Death Age: 70
Registration District: Dublin North
Volume: 2
Page: 189
FHL Film Number: 257855

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