[2] Ben Novick, Conceiving Revolution Irish Nationalist Propaganda during the First World War, (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2001), p. 16.

[3] Thomas Hennessey, Dividing Ireland, World War 1 and Partition, (Routledge, London, 1998), 79.

[4] Boyce, 'Ireland and the First World War', p.48.

[5] Keith Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War, (Cambridge University Press, 2000), p.7.

[6] Peter Karsten, 'Irish Soldiers in the British Army, 1792-1922: Suborned or Subordinate', Journal of Social History, Vol. xvii, 1983, p. 34.

[7] Karsten, 'Irish Soldiers in the British Army, 1792-1922', p.34.

[8] Ibid.

[9] Tom Barry, Guerilla Days in Ireland, 7th Edition (Anvil Books, 1962), p.i.

[10] Barry, Guerilla Days in Ireland,p.2.

[11] Myles Dungan, They Shall Grow Not Old, Irish Soldiers and the Great War, (Four Courts Press, 1997), p.15.

[12] Dungan, They Shall Grow Not Old, Irish Soldiers and the Great War, p. 15.

[13] Ibid.

[14] CAI, de Roiste papers, U271A, Book 16, de Roiste journal, 1 November 1914.

[15] Dermot Lucey, Cork Public Opinion and the First World War (MA Thesis, University College Cork 1972), p.1.

[16] Thomas Anthony Linehan, The Development of Cork's Economy and Business Attitudes 1910-1939, (MA Thesis University College Cork 1985) p. 27.

[17] Linehan, The Development of Cork's Economy and Business Attitudes 1910-1939, p.27.

[18] Novick, Conceiving Revolution,p.20.

[19] Ibid.

[20] Novick, Conceiving Revolution, p.21.

[21] CAI, de Roiste papers, U271A, Book 18, de Roiste journal, 7 November 1915.

[22] CAI, de Roiste papers, 7 November 1915.

[23] David Fitzpatrick, 'Militarism in Ireland, 1900-1922', in Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffrey (eds),  A military history of IRELAND, (Cambridge University Press, 1996), p.391.

[24] Fitzpatrick, 'Militarism in Ireland, 1900-1922', p.391.

[25] Richard Doherty, The Sons of Ulster, Ulstermen at War from the Somme to Korea, (Appletree Press, 1992), p.17.

[26] Doherty, The Sons of Ulster, p.17

[27] Novick, Conceiving Revolution,p.17.

[28] Aindrias O' Cathasaigh (ed), The Lost Writings James Connolly , (Pluto Press, London, 1997)p. 148.

[29] New Ireland, 15 May 1915.

[30] Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War, p.30.

[31] Ibid.

[32] ibid.

[33] Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War,p.31.

[34] Jeffery, Ireland and the Great War,pp.31-32.

[35] Margaret Downes, 'The Civilian Voluntary Aid Effort' in David Fitzpatrick (ed.), 'Ireland and the First World War', (The LILLIPUT Press and Trinity History Workshop, 1998), p.30.

[36] Downes, 'The Civilian Voluntary Aid Effort', p.27.

[37] Downes, 'The Civilian Voluntary Aid Effort', p.33.

[38] Freeman's Journal, 11 August 1914.

[39] Downes, 'The Civilian Voluntary Aid Effort', p.31.

[40] Hansard fifth Series, Vol. 69 col. 1287 (18 February 1915).

[41] Downes, 'The Civilian Voluntary Aid Effort', p.31.

[42] John Ormerod Greenwood, Quaker Encounters, Friends and Relief, Vol. 1., (William Sessions Ltd, York, 1975), p.199.

[43] Greenwood, Quaker Encounters, p.194.

[44] Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, Proceedings of The Yearly Meeting, (Dublin, 1916), p.54.

[45] Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, Proceedings of The Yearly Meeting,p.54.

[46] Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, Proceedings of The Yearly Meeting, (Dublin, 1917), p.11.

[47] Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, Proceedings of The Yearly Meeting,p.11.

[48] Greenwood, Quaker Encounters, p.212.

[49] Greenwood, Quaker Encounters, p.213.

[50] University College Cork, Official Gazette, Vol. 6. , no. 17. March 1916, p.166.

[51] University College Cork, Official Gazette, Vol. 7. , no. 26.July 1919, p. 259.

[52] Downes, 'The Civilian Voluntary Aid Effort', p.33.

[53] Ibid.