admin | June 14, 2011
This post comes courtesy of the Irish Volunteers commemorative organisation, http://irishvolunteers.org/ Hello all, We have been asked to put up more pictures of memorabilia that we have on display around the country, please see the pictures below. These include Irish volunteer cap badges, Irish war of Independence medals ,1916 Rising medals , also firearms of [...]
admin | April 22, 2011
The Irish War has been sponsoring the Irish Volunteers Commemorative Organisation, http://irishvolunteers.org/ This weekend, to mark the 1916 Easter week Rising, the I.V.C.O. will be putting on a small display of Original Irish war of Independence items at the Metropole Hotel ,MacCurtain Street, Cork city on saturday April 23, 10 am to 4 pm. The event [...]
admin | March 3, 2011
A contributor has recently sent us some photos of weapons used by the Irish Republican Army , third West Cork Brigade, we thank you very much. The pistol is a Webley and Scott Ltd London & Birmingham, 6.3 mm automatic pistol. The machine gun is a Lewis ,marked Animes Automatiques Lewis Belgium and Bimingham co [...]
admin | February 21, 2011
British I.R.A. Volunteers 1921 . An article by padraig O Ruairc. Very often the history of Irish Republicanism is presented in over simplistic black and white terms of Catholic Vs Protestant – English Vs Irish. Any one who has undertaken even the most basic study of Irish history from the 1700’s onwards will know that [...]
admin | February 18, 2011
An article by Padraig O Ruairc Brief History of the Irish Citizens Army The army rose out of the great strike of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union in 1913, known as the Lockout of 1913. The dispute was over the recognition of this labour union founded by James Larkin. It began when William [...]
admin | February 15, 2011
The Irish Volunteers Irish (National) Volunteers, a militia founded 25 November 1913 at the Rotunda in Dublin They were founded as a direct response to the UVF (Ulster Volunteer Force , founded 1912 )) , the UVF opposed Home Rule for Ireland and wished to maintain the union with Britain. To ensure that Home Rule would [...]
admin | May 24, 2010
A friend and collector has supplied us with photographs of a Cork Volunteers cap,very nice quality and condition. Many thanks to Daniel Hulin.
admin | May 24, 2010
An article posted by Irish author and historian Padraig O Ruairc. Thanks Padraig. Re-enactors have been asking me for some time about Irish Volunteers / I.R.A. uniforms and what is and is not accurate. This is a very big issue to cover as the uniform, appearance, personnel, weaponry targets and tactics of the Irish Volunteers [...]