Reason Why To Join Irish Citizens Army Recruitment Poster - 1913 ( IRA ) - Print
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Reason Why To Join Irish Citizens Army Recruitment Poster - 1913 ( IRA ) - Print:
$18.99
This is such a great and rare print.
It is a recruitment poster for ‘The Irish Citizen Army’ (ICA) from 1913.
The ICA was a group of trained trade union volunteers in Dublin for the defence of workers demonstrations from the British police.
It was formed by James Larkin and Jack White.
Other famous members later joined including James Connolly, Sean Casey, Constance Markiewicz and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington.
In 1916, they took part in the Easter Rising with the Irish Volunteers (check out our Irish Volunteer recruitment poster too from 1913!!) against British Occupation in Ireland.
They helped occupy the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street) during the Rising.
James Connolly was made commander of the rebel forces in Dublin during the Rising and issued orders to surrender after a week.
He was executed by British firing squad some weeks after for his part in the Rising.
The surviving ICA members were interned in Frognach in Wales until 1919.
Many of the ICA later joined the Irish Republican Army (IRA) so in a sense this poster helped start the IRA, an organisation which still exists today!
The ICA’s last public appearance was in 1947 to accompany the funeral procession of founder James Larkin.
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Reason Why To Join Irish Citizens Army Recruitment Poster - 1913 ( IRA ) - Print:
$18.99