Hibernian Rifles

The Hibernian Rifles was a marginal Irish nationalist militia that organised in Ireland in the early years of the 20th Century, having its Dublin Headquarters at 28, North Frederick Street.

In a characteristic lecture, "Treason in Ireland", the Rifles commandant John J. Scollan said: "Many more of us through God’s grace shall live to see the Union Jack of England down in the dust and our own immortal green interwoven with the yellow and white of the Irish Republic waving proudly and victoriously…over the land."

During the 1913 Dublin Lockout, a special subscription was placed on the Rifles members in Ireland and a fund was also opened in the USA for the relief of distress of those affected by the strike.

[3] While it was willing to co-operate with other nationalist groups, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) does not seem to have trusted it completely and therefore it had to obtain some of their rifles from James Connolly, and others which they bought from British soldiers.

The Hibernian serialised "Ireland's Roll of Honour", which was a list of those killed or wounded at Harrel's 'Battle of Clontarf' and Bachelor's Walk in 1914, or who were imprisoned, deported or served with exclusion orders under the Defence of the Realm Act.