Following the Easter Rising and War of Independence, the Irish Government eventually got around to issuing medals and pensions to participants.
The Irish Defence Forces website has a nice write up re the different medals, the dates they covers, some of the political background and some of the issues re who was/was not entitled to a medal etc
http://www.military.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/images/Info_Centre/documents/MSPC_MEDALSBOOKLET_APRIL2016.pdf
The document gives a figure of 2594 as the number of veterans who applied and who qualified for the 1916 medal for example and notes some who were eligible but for whom no application was received.
More information about the medals can be found on Brendan Lee's site :
1916 Medal (and 1966 Jubilee Medal)
1917-1921 Service Medal (and 1971 Truce Commemoration Medal)
For information about medals issued in Ireland before 1916 and others awarded to Irish Defence Forces, Gardai, Fire Brigade etc personnel the following site if a useful resource
http://www.theeasterrising.eu/025_AllMedals/All_Medals.htm
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