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Names
Grob-Fitzgibbon says Redmond announced name "National Volunteers" to "avoid confusion".

Charles Townshend says "by mutual consent" they adopted "Irish Volunteers" and "Irish National Volunteers" respectively; "Though it is often suggested that the latter title was invented at the time of the split, in fact it had been in use by many units from early 1914 onwards." Cumann na mBan's founding document used "Irish National Volunteers".

"By 15 June, the Irish Parliamentary Party had ‘in dramatic fashion’, taken charge of the movement which then became known as the National Volunteers."

Medallists P. Quinn & Co. of Belfast made otherwise identical brass-and-enamel badges with "NV" or "IV".

Personnel
Grob-Fitzgibbon says Redmond's committee included only his 25 nominees; Hobson says it included "five or six" of the original Provisional Committee.

Redmond papers June July 1914 NLI