The information in the tables below is compiled from Hansard, 5 (H.C. 1918), CV, 42, national newspapers (Irish Independent, Belfast Newsletter, Freeman’s Journal) and the Redmond Papers in the National Library of Ireland (MS 15269).
The figures are from the returns from recruiting offices in Ireland, the figures are not the total number of Irishmen in the British Army they are the total number of Irishmen who enlisted in Ireland.
National Volunteers and Ulster Volunteer Force recruitment from the start of WW1 up to the 25th of January 1918.
Province
National Volunteers
Ulster Volunteers
Not members of the Volunteers
Total
Ulster
8,784
26,020
28,986
62,890
Leinster
6,085
72
7,503
13,660
Connaught
1,816
54
2,856
4,725
Munster
4,269
12
14,729
19,010
Dublin City*
3,012
16
20,410
23,438
Total
23,966
26,174
73,584
123,724
Numbers of National Volunteer and UVF recruits by 6 month periods