Henry Banks – View from Dublin Volunteer mainstream

Henry Banks was a storeman with Dublin Corporation. This short Witness Statement is probably indicative of the attitude of many Dublin Volunteers. They did not like Larkin or ‘internationalism’ but were more accommodating of hostility from within the nationalist establishment, including the Catholic Church.

Banks’s job security probably reinforced his natural conservatism on most issues – he really only parted company with the Redmondites on recourse to violence to achieve nationalist goals. It would be interesting to know whether he was politically active post 1922 and, if so, with whom? Anyone out there have any further information about him?

 http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie/reels/bmh/BMH.WS1637.pdf   Amateur solidiers and camping enthusiasts – This photograph is of an Irish Volunteers’ camp in 1915, in the Galtee Mountains. It is from Bureau of Military History Collection