[First issue of printed periodical.] The Irish Volunteer. Oglác na h-eireann. ['The Official Organ of the Volunteer Movement'.]

16pp., 8vo. Complete publication, unstapled and unbound. Unopened (i.e. with the pages unseparated). On the usual high-acidity newspaper stock, brittle and aged, with chipping to outer margins. The first page carries a poem title 'Ireland, 1914', by Padraic Colum. Other contributors include Joseph Plunkett and Professor T. M. ('Tom') Kettle. The final page carries an article by M. J. Judge titled 'A Nation's Destiny. Arms Are The Arbiters', and an illustrated piece on 'First Aid'. The newspaper was published between 1914 and 1916. Following the formation of the Ulster Volunteers in 1912, the Irish Volunteers was established by Irish nationalists in 1913 as a military organisation, allied to the Gaelic League, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Sinn Féin, and the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Now extremely uncommon: COPAC only lists runs at the British Library, Trinity College Dublin and the Imperial War Museum.