Its first editors were Francis Sheehy-Skeffington the writer, pacifist and suffragist, and James H. Cousins[1] who were associate members of the IWFL.
[2] Their wives Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and Margaret Cousins had founded the IWFL in 1908 and both contributed to the newspaper.
[1] According to Hanna, "The Irish Citizen was founded in May 1912 to further the cause of Woman Suffrage and Feminism in Ireland...
"[1] Other contributors included the cartoonist Ernest Kavanagh, Margaret Connery, Maud Gonne-MacBride, Marion Duggan, Marie Johnson, Cissie Cahalan, Louie Bennett, Elizabeth McCracken (LAM Priestley) and Mary Bourke-Dowling and Lillian Metge.
[2] It was initially a weekly eight-page publication and sold for a penny, with an annual subscription of 6 shillings and 6 pence, but later became a monthly with four pages.