This thesis examines the post-revolutionary afterlives and lived experiences of women who participated in the Irish Revolution, tracing how their political service continued to shape their economic, social, and embodied lives after independence. While women’s wartime contributions were extensive, their post-conflict trajectories unfolded within a state that defined veteran status largely through masculinised models of military service. Drawing primarily on the Military Service Pensions Collection, alongside welfare records, emigration files, and personal correspondence, this study reconstructs both the structural conditions and the everyday experiences of women’s post-revolutionary lives between 1912 and 1939. It argues that the Irish Free State produced a gendered regime of recognition in which women were simultaneously acknowledged as patriots yet marginalised as veterans. Pension legislation and welfare policy generated long-term precarity, while emigration emerged as a key gendered afterlife shaped by economic need, political stigma, and restricted social space. The thesis also traces the physical and psychological consequences of revolutionary service, revealing how illness, exhaustion, and trauma formed part of its enduring legacy.