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volunteers and citizens army

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  • 28-09-2016 4:25am
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    Bob Z
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    was there any rivalry between the two groups? could you be a member of both?


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    Ascendant
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    Bob Z wrote: »
    was there any rivalry between the two groups? could you be a member of both?

    At the start, at least, there was some tension between the two groups, or at least ideological differences:

    Seán O’Casey’s ‘battle of words’ with the Volunteers
    Seán O’Casey was secretary of the Irish Citizen Army and wrote ‘ICA Notes’ in The Worker and the Irish Worker. While James Connolly attacked the British, O’Casey attacked the Volunteers week after week. He continually argued that the workers of Ireland were not served by the intent of the Volunteers, that the Volunteers were in fact anti-labour and that no working person should join them or Cumann na mBan.

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    O’Casey demanded that Countess Markievicz sever her ties with the Volunteers (some say just with Cumann na mBan). When she was vindicated by a margin of one vote of the ICA Army Council, his hostility was overruled and he resigned. Following his departure, the ICA and the Volunteers started to work more closely together.


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