The illustration also includes details in the background of the badge of the Irish army, with the Irish words, “Óglaigh na hÉireann” [Irish Volunteers is the English translation].
Professor Eoin MacNeill, Chairman of the National Executive of the Irish Volunteers (founded in 1913), designed the badge. Major General Jim Sreenan, the Commandant of the Irish Army in 2012, wrote that the “tradition of service and loyalty, that runs as a theme throughout our history, was set by the Volunteers in 1913 and is continued to this day in the modern Defence Forces.”