Irish Citizen Army - Connolly Youth Movement

CYM Commemorates the 109th Anniversary of the Irish Citizen Army

November 29, 2022 by CYM Committee

“On 26th November 2022 the Connolly Youth Movement held a commemoration for the 109th anniversary of the Irish Citizen Army. The Irish Citizen Army had made its first debut on the 23rd November 1913 at Fairview Park, and remains a cornerstone of Irish socialist and working-class history, and their vision of an Irish Socialist Republic remains the ambition of the CYM.”

Black Friday of 1910 & the Irish Suffragettes

January 3, 2022November 27, 2020 by CYM Committee

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, suffragette movements across the world followed in behind empires that had beaten them for decades but not Irish Suffragettes.

For the Citizen Army – 107th Anniversary of the ICA

January 3, 2022November 23, 2020 by CYM Committee

107 years ago the Irish Citizen Army made their first public appearance, as we remember them and their commitment to the cause of labour, what lessons can we learn from their example?