The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 31 newspaper, first published 5th September 1914. Free article

RECENTLY I have been considering what motivated an estimated 210,000 Irishmen to enlist in the British Army during the First World War. It is a question that has exercised minds in Ireland for many years, perhaps more so recently in the context of the upcoming centenary commemorations. Free article

TWO THOUSAND republicans will gather in Derry next March for the annual Sinn Féin Ard Fheis. It may be the first time Derry has hosted the Ard Fheis but it is certainly not the first time the city has hosted such a large gathering of republicans. Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 30 newspaper, first published 29th August 1914. Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 29 newspaper, first published 22nd August 1914. Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 28 newspaper, first published 15th August 1914. Free article

HUNDREDS of people gathered in the north Dublin fishing village of Howth on Saturday 26 July to mark 100 years since the Asgard yacht, loaded with 900 rifles and 29,000 rounds of ammunition destined for the Irish Volunteers, landed on the East Pier in 1914. Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 26 newspaper, first published 1st August 1914. Free article

One of the least known but most important gunrunning operations in Irish history took place in Kilcoole, County Wicklow on 1 August 1914. It arose from an initiative taken in early 1914 by Michael, The O'Rahilly, Director of Arms of the recently formed Irish Volunteers, in conjunction with Erskine Childers, Sir Roger Casement and other prominent nationalists. Free article

Mary Spring Rice's diary from Wednesday 1 July to Sunday 26 July 1914 Free article

From 'War by the Irish', by John McCann Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 25 newspaper, first published 25th July 1914. Free article

By Corporal ‘Willie Nelson’ [Pádraig Ó Riain]. First published in Nodlaig na bhFiann, December 1914 Free article

The first in a series of short documentaries by An Phoblacht 'Roads To Revolution 1916 - The Landing of the Asgard' Free article

The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 1 - Number 22 newspaper, first published 4th July 1914. Free article