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The Irish Citizen Army (ICA) was born out of the struggle between the workers and the employers during the Lockout of 1913. A defense force had been mooted many times before the ICA was actually formed, and police brutality during previous strikes in Dublin, Cork and Wexford had convinced some of the necessity for such a force. James Larkin had said during the 1908 Dublin carters’ strike that he would organise a ‘workers’ army’ to defend the strikers if the employers sent in the army, as they had done in Belfast in 1907.
The offer from a military man like Captain Jack White to organise and discipline a workers’ defense force, coupled with the sheer brutality of the police during the first weekend of the Lockout in August 1913, were the factors that resulted in the formation of the ICA