The failure of socialist republicanism in the Irish revolution and its aftermath - Part 10
Frank Robbins in Irish Citizen Army uniform (from 1913committee.ie website). CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST . Disunity In his testimony to the Bureau of Military History, given in 1951, Frank Robbins, a former sergeant in the Irish Citizen Army, describes a meeting he had with Larkin in New York in 1917. Robbins had conveyed a message to Larkin from Thomas Foran , a leading figure in the ITGWU. According to Robbins, "Larkin seemed less interested in hearing the message I had to give than in making wild charges against John Devoy , Judge Daniel F. Cohalan [both senior members of the Irish nationalist community in America] and other Irish People in America". He then, according to Robbins, went on to declaim against James Connolly, Pádraig Pearse and Thomas McDonagh, all signatories of the 1916 'Proclamation of the Irish Republic', who had been executed by the British for their role in the Easter Rising, stating that "Connolly had no right whatever to bri