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There had been discussion of whether to establish a distinct, partisan support group for the IRSM from at least 1981, as October of that year was the first time someone was allowed to join the Irish Republican Socialist Party while resident in North America, when activists Caitlin Hines and Peter Urban were admitted to the party, but it was agreed that a broad front type of formation best ...
Al Smith – New York governor, Democratic Party presidential candidate (Irish born grandparents from Westmeath; Smith identified as an Irish American) James Smith – signatory to the Declaration of Independence; Peter J. Somers – Milwaukee mayor; Brian P. Stack – Mayor of Union City, New Jersey [53] Michael J. Stack – US Congressman
The Irish Republican Socialist Party was founded at a meeting on 8 December 1974 in the Spa Hotel in Lucan, near Dublin, by former members of Workers' Party (aka 'Official' Sinn Féin), headed by Seamus Costello.
Aontú is an all-Ireland republican party with a left-wing economic stance and a conservative social position. It was founded in 2019 by Peadar Tóibín who left Sinn Féin because of its support for the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. It has two TDs, one senator and eight councillors in the Republic of Ireland.
Dan Breen (1894–1969), an early member of the Irish Volunteers and served as leader of the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence. He would later become a prominent figure in Fianna Fáil. George Brent (1899–1979), an American actor who acted as a courier during Irish War of Independence.
The Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM) is an umbrella term for: the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), a Marxist–Leninist [1] Irish republican [2] political party formed in 1974 following a split in Official Sinn Féin. [3] the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), the paramilitary wing of the IRSP. [4]
The Irish Socialist Federation (ISF) was an organization which was active in the United States and was founded by James Connolly and others. [1] It had branches in New York and Chicago. In March 1907, a céili was held to launch the organization. The aim of the party was to raise class consciousness among Irish emigrants in America.
NORAID, officially the Irish Northern Aid Committee, is an Irish American membership organization founded after the start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969. The organization states its mission is to aid in the creation of a United Ireland in the spirit of the 1916 Easter Proclamation and to support the Northern Ireland Peace process.