Jeffrey Leddin, The “Labour Hercules”: The Irish Citizen Army and Irish Republicanism, 1913-23

Abstract

Although actively involved in the Irish Revolution, the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) has garnered less attention from academics than the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) since the island was effectively partitioned in 1922. This book goes some way to bridging that gap, as it is the second monograph by an academic on the workers’ militia, after Ann Matthews’s in 2014, in this decade of centenary celebrations. The books devoted to the ICA had hitherto been written by activists, ...