The Volunteers ′ shooting and clubbing of civilians made them extremely unpopular in these localities.

Members of the Irish Volunteers — led by schoolteacher and barrister Pádraig ( Patrick ) Pearse, joined by the smaller Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly, along with 200 members of Cumann na mBan — seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the Irish Republic independent of Britain.

Together, Plunkett and Casement presented a plan which involved a German expeditionary force landing on the west coast of Ireland, while a rising in Dublin diverted the British forces so that the Germans, with the help of local Volunteers, could secure the line of the River Shannon.

Early on Monday morning, 24 April 1916, roughly 1, 200 Volunteers and Citizen Army members took over strongpoints in Dublin city centre.

In the south, around 1, 200 Volunteers mustered in Cork, under Tomás Mac Curtain on the Sunday, but they dispersed after receiving nine contradictory orders by dispatch from the Volunteer leadership in Dublin.

The first steps towards reorganizing the defeated Irish Volunteers were taken on 27 October 1917 when a convention took place in Dublin.

He was a Sinn Féin councillor on Dublin Corporation from 1909 until 1922 and joined the Irish Volunteers in 1913.

Paisley, along with Noel Docherty established the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee, which in turn established the paramilitary organisation Ulster Protestant Volunteers on 17 April 1966 at a parade in the Shankill area of Belfast < ref name = Boulton > Boulton, David .< u > The UVF 1966-73, An Anatomy of Loyalist Rebellion </ u > Dublin: Torc Books, 1973.

It was through ranks of Volunteers drawn up outside the parliament house in Dublin that Grattan passed on 16 April 1782, amidst unparalleled popular enthusiasm, to move a declaration of the independence of the Irish parliament.

Manuscripts 33118 ); Carlisle Correspondence ; Beresford Correspondence ; Stanhope Miscellanies ; for the Catholic question, W Anshurst, History of Catholic Emancipation ( 2 vols., London, 1886 ); Sir Thomas Wyse, Historical Sketch of the late Catholic Association of Ireland ( London, 1829 ); W. J. MacNeven, Pieces of Irish History ( New York, 1807 ) containing an account of the United Irishmen ; for the volunteer movement Thomas MacNevin, History of the Volunteers of 1782 ( Dublin, 1845 ); Proceedings of the Volunteer Delegates of Ireland 1784 ( Anon.

In March 1915, O ' Kelly went to New York City, to inform Clan Na Gael of the plans for a rising in Dublin by the Irish Volunteers.

In 1916, a group of IRB activists within the Irish Volunteers led an insurrection aimed at Irish independence in Dublin, known as the Easter Rising.

Upon his release he immediately rejoined the republican movement and became commandant of The Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers.

In April 1916, just over a thousand dissident Volunteers and 250 members of the Citisen's Army launched the Easter Rising in the Dublin General Post Office and, in the Easter Proclamation, proclaimed the independence of the Irish Republic.

As the Volunteers marched from Howth back to Dublin, however, they were met by a large patrol of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the British Army.

The Volunteers escaped largely unscathed, but when the army returned to Dublin they clashed with a group of unarmed civilians who had been heckling them at Bachelors Walk.

The official stance of the Irish Volunteers was that action would only be taken were the British authorities at Dublin Castle to attempt to disarm the Volunteers, arrest their leaders, or introduce conscription to Ireland.

The Volunteers, infiltrated to a large degree by the separatist Irish Republican Brotherhood, declared an Irish Republic and took over much of the centre of Dublin.

In April 1780, Tandy was expelled from the Dublin Volunteers ( see Henry Flood ) for proposing the expulsion of the Duke of Leinster.

He was president of the volunteer convention in Dublin in November 1783, having taken a leading part in the formation of the Irish Volunteers ; and he was a strong opponent of the proposals for the Union.

" Asgard " was Childers's last, and most famous, yacht: in June 1914 he used it to smuggle a cargo of 900 elderly but serviceable Mauser Model 1871 rifles and 29, 000 rounds of black powder cartridge ammunition to the Irish Volunteers movement at the fishing village of Howth, County Dublin ( later known as the " Howth gun-running ").

This knowledge was not in wide circulation, but neither was it a great secret, and the official telegram calling Childers to naval service was sent to the Dublin headquarters of the Irish Volunteers, the group to which he had made the delivery.

Although Childers may have intended his act as no more than a symbolic gesture, it had all too tangible consequences: the Volunteers were too numerous to allow any official intervention to succeed, but police nonetheless attempted to intercept the weapons as they were being marched towards Dublin.

Redmond requested the War Office to allow the formation of a separate ' Irish Brigade ' as had been done for the Ulster Volunteers, but Britain was suspicious of Redmond.

His plan was that post-war the ' Irish Brigade ' and National Volunteers would provide the basis for an Irish Army, capable of enforcing Home Rule on reluctant Ulster Unionists.

The 47th Brigade was known as the " Nationalist Brigade " as the majority were men from Redmond's Irish Volunteers.

During the American Civil War, in addition to his Senate service, Lane raised a brigade of Jayhawkers known as the " Kansas Brigade ", or " Lane's Brigade ", composed of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Kansas Volunteers.

Finally, a corps-sized detachment consisting of the Anzac Mounted Division, the 20th Indian Infantry Brigade, two battalions of the British West Indies Regiment and two battalions of Jewish Volunteers in the Royal Fusiliers, amounting to 11, 000 men commanded by Major General Edward Chaytor and known as Chaytor's Force, was to capture the Jisr ed Damieh bridge and fords in a pincer movement.

He was the son of George Hall Moffett ( 1829 – 1875 ), who enlisted in the Confederate States army as a private, and was promoted for bravery on the field of battle, eventually attaining the rank of Captain and adjutant-general, Hagood's Brigade, Twenty-fifth South Carolina Volunteers.

* Irish Volunteers: History of the Irish Brigade

Due to the active East Mayo Brigade of the Irish Volunteers during the Irish War of Independence, Ballyhaunis witnessed a number of incidents.

His long list of honorary military posts included: honorary colonel of the 2nd London Corps from 24 September 1887, honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, the Sherwood Foresters ( Derbyshire Regiment ) from 29 December 1888, honorary colonel of the 1st Newcastle upon Tyne ( Western Division ), Royal Artillery from 18 April 1894, honorary colonel of the Waterford Artillery ( Southern Division ) from 4 March 1896, colonel-commandant of the Royal Artillery from 7 October 1896, honorary colonel of the 3rd Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment from 1 January 1898, honorary colonel of the City of London Imperial Volunteers from 10 March 1900, honorary colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment from 5 September 1900, colonel of the Irish Guards from 17 October 1900, honorary colonel of the 2nd Hampshire ( Southern Division ), Royal Garrison Artillery from 15 August 1901, honorary colonel of the 3rd ( Dundee Highland ) Volunteer Battalion, the Black Watch ( Royal Highlanders ) from 19 September 1903, honorary colonel of the North Somerset Yeomanry from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 6th Battalion, the City of London ( Rifles ') Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of the 1st Wessex Brigade from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of 6th Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment from 1 April 1908, honorary colonel of The Waterford Royal Field Reserve Artillery from 2 August 1908 and honorary colonel of 1st ( Hull ) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment from 11 November 1914 ( three days before his death ).

* Walcha and surrounding districts are serviced by the NSW Rural Fire Service and a Brigade of Volunteers run the local Fire Station.

" This sleeping arrangement was also recorded by a fellow officer in Derickson's regiment, Thomas Chamberlin, in the book History of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Second Regiment, Bucktail Brigade.

Notable as an early engagement of Confederate Colonel Thomas J. Jackson and his Brigade of Virginia Volunteers, nineteen days before their famous nickname would originate, this brief skirmish was hailed by both sides as a stern lesson to the other.

* Civil War reenactors of the Turner Brigade of Missouri Volunteers.

Michael Abraham Levy, Baron Levy, ( born 11 July 1944 ) is President of Community Service Volunteers ( CSV ) Jewish Care, Jewish Free School ( JFS ) and Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade ( JLGB ).

Levy is President of Jewish Care, the Jewish Free School, Community Service Volunteers and the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade.

In 1967 both units were amalgamated with other Territorial infantry battalions in the Lowland Brigade to form the 52nd Lowland Volunteers.

He was one of the founders of the Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, and was President of the Cork branch of Sinn Féin.

Originally formed as the 52nd Lowland Volunteers in 1967, as a result of the amalgamation of Territorial Battalions within the infantry Regiments of the Lowland Brigade, the name commemorated the 52nd Lowland Division of the Territorial Force, within which many of the Regiment's antecedent Territorial Battalions served during the First and Second World Wars.

The 1st Battalion of the Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers were raised in 1860, and counted Boys ' Brigade founder William Alexander Smith amongst its ranks.

In 1916, as commandant of the Kerry Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, he made preparations for the landing of arms by Roger Casement.

The Volunteers did however form part of the ORBAT of 38 Gurkha Infantry Brigade and were under command of the Commander British Forces.