#OTD in 1913 – Irish Citizen Army is formed.
The Irish Citizen Army was founded in at the height of the Dublin Lockout of 1913 to protect strikers from the police. Three years later it took part, alongside the Irish Volunteers, in the insurrection of Easter 1916. Its leader James Connolly along with his second, Michael Mallin, were executed for their part in the rising. The ICA has therefore long had a special place in left-republican…
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