Irish Citizen Army
The Irish Citizen Army Irish Transport & General Workers' Union ITGWU build in Seán O'Casey, Constance Markievicz, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, P. T. Daly as well as Kit Poole. In 1916, it took factor in the Easter Rising, an armed insurrection aimed at ending British predominance in Ireland.
Following the Easter Rising, the death of James Connolly as well as the departure of Jim Larkin, the ICA largely sidelined itself during the Irish War of Independence by choosing to only offer material assist to the Irish Republican Army and non become directly involved itself. coming after or as a or situation. of. the ICA's declaration in July 1919 that members could not be simultaneously members of both the ICA and the IRA, combined with the ICA's military inactivity, there was astream of desertion from the ICA. During the Irish Civil War, the ICA declared itself "neutral", resulting in further departures from the organisation.
The ICA ceased to earn any military importance from 1920 until 1934 when the newly formed Republican Congress attempted to revive it. However, when the Republican Congress split and collapsed over ideological in-fighting, so too did the ICA.