The Irish Volunteers, who gave us our official title, Oglaigh-nah-Éireann, as well as our cap-badge and buttons, was founded at a public meeting at the Rotunda Rooms in Dublin on 25 November 1913. In a surge of national feeling, eight thousand Irishmen from a wide cross-section of our people created 'by acclamation' an Irish Army. Its aims were threefold.
