Irish Citizen Army: The World's First Working Class Army - Daithi Mac An Mhaistir
Connolly BooksIrish Republican Socialist
The Irish Citizen Army was a Marxist-influenced socialist republican organisation that emerged out of the social conditions and related labour struggles of early twentieth-century Dublin.
This book examines the largely under-appreciated military and political significance of the Citizen Army. As an army both for and of the working class, it was a unique historical phenomenon.
It was in fact the world's first working-class army.
Daithi Mac an Mhaistir is a teacher of applied social studies at a college of further education in Dublin. He holds degrees in psychology, anthropology, and military history.
Reviews
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Shinning light on the ICA
This book is great for looking in depth at The ICA—something otherwise left behind in the history of struggle. I just wish it was a bit longer.