Irish Left ArchivePublished #OnThisDay 21st October 1921:
An t-Ógláċ (The Volunteer), Official Organ of the Irish Volunteers.
Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ2/2 This was the area where #JamesConnolly recruited the Citizen Army; many of the desperately poor people from this triangle made the core of the 1916 Rising; afterwards, they stood too ready to join the #WarOfIndependence, but the #IrishVolunteers continually told them "We'll ask you when we need you" - they were excluded in the Free State and are now excluded in the Republic