Republican movement (Ireland)

The republican movement refers to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and other political, social and paramilitary organisations and movements associated with it. It can refer to:

  • Republican Movement, which consisted of the IRA and Sinn Féin prior to 1969.[1]

The Dissident Republican Movement itself consists of multiple movements:

  • Continuity Republican Movement, which consists of the Continuity IRA and Republican Sinn Féin.[10]
  • Real Republican Movement, which consisted of the Real IRA and 32 County Sovereignty Movement.[11]
  1. ^ Bowyer Bell, J. (1997). The Secret Army: The IRA. Transaction Publishers. p. 337. ISBN 1-56000-901-2.
  2. ^ a b Taylor, Peter (1997). Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 380. ISBN 0-7475-3818-2. Whereas I use the Republican Movement as the generic name for the 'Provos' - the Provisional IRA and Sinn Féin - the term the 'Movement' is used by republicans to mean the IRA.
  3. ^ a b O'Donnell, Ruán (2012). Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons Vol.1: 1968-78. Irish Academic Press. p. xiv. ISBN 978-0-7165-3142-5. Republican Movement: Collective term for the IRA, Cumann na mBan, Sinn Féin, National Graves Association, republican youth and marching bands which emerged from the 1969/1970 split
  4. ^ 'No Irish model for Palestinians', Henry McDonald, The Guardian, 26 January 2006
  5. ^ O'Donnell, Ruán (2012). Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons Vol.1: 1968-78. Irish Academic Press. p. xiii. ISBN 978-0-7165-3142-5. Official Republican Movement: Collective term for the Official IRA, Official Sinn Féin, Official Na Fianna Éireann and allied republican groups following the 1969/1970 split
  6. ^ Morrison, John F. (2015). The Origins and Rise of Dissident Irish Republicanism. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 85. ISBN 978-1501309236. This chapter covers the relatively short process which resulted in the division in the Official Republican Movement resulting in the formation of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM) which consisted of an armed wing, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) and a political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP)
  7. ^ The Omagh Bombing: Some Remaining Questions Fourth Report of Session 2009-10 Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence (House of Commons Papers). Stationery Office Books. 2010. p. 10. ISBN 978-1501309236. Although the Belfast Agreement was signed on Good Friday in April that year, the dissident republican movement, principally through the Real IRA and the Continuity IRA, continued to be active.
  8. ^ Jackson, George (22 April 2014). "Dissident republican criticises Martin McGuinness's toast to queen". The Irish Times. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  9. ^ Taylor, Max (2011). Dissident Irish Republicanism. Continuum. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-1441154675. It also confirms that the seemingly large contingent from the South is not biased by data collection on members from the wider dissident movement that do not necessarily engage in the violence itself (e.g. Republican Sinn Féin).
  10. ^ Morrison, John F.; Busher, Joel (2018). "Micro Moral Worlds of Contentious Politics: A Reconceptualization of Radical Groups and Their Intersections with One Another and the Mainstream". Mobilization. 23 (2): 9. doi:10.17813/1086-671X-23-3-219. S2CID 149187634. The relationship between RSF and CIRA is however difficult to unpick. It is publicly known, and privately acknowledged, that RSF is the political wing of the CIRA, with the two organisations sometimes collectively referred to as the Continuity Republican Movement.
  11. ^ Horgan, John (2013). Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists. Oxford University Press. pp. 139–140. ISBN 978-0-19-977285-8. Similarly, the RIRA and 32 County Sovereignty Movement (32CSM) can be combined to show the membership of the Real Republican Movement.