Sir,—I wish to add to Joseph E.A. Connell’s excellent column on ‘The founding of the Irish Citizen Army’ (HI 21.5, Sept./Oct. 2013, ‘Countdown to 2020’). Most histories of the ICA, including D.R. O’Connor Lysaght’s superb ‘The Irish Citizen Army, 1913–1916: White, Larkin, and Connolly’ (HI 14.2, March/April 2006), overlook the role that Dublin-born dramatist and ... Read more
