100:(The Republic). This paper openly criticised the Republican Movement for its lack of action on the north and for reneging on republican principles. There was considerable tension between the IRF and the IRA, which turned into raids and armed counter-raids. In 1963, for example, a group of eight armed IRF members raided the Cork Sinn FĂ©in headquarters and warned the city's IRA leaders at gunpoint because of the IRA's seizure of the group's newsletter from the printer where it was being produced. The group also seized thousands of copies of the United Irishman, the Sinn FĂ©in paper, as it arrived in the local railway station. Relations between the group and the IRA were strained for much of the 1960s with the IRF regularly criticising the politics of the Republican Movement and arguing for a socialist way forward.
171:, which ran from 1971 to 1973. The CCO later became the Cork Workers' Club. This operated out of the same premises in St Nicholas Church Lane that Saor Éire had used as its headquarters. Over the years, the CWC ran a bookshop selling Marxist and republican literature, and published a series of 'Historical Reprints' of Irish socialist classics by
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Unemployed Protest Movement in the late 1950s and was instrumental in establishing the Cork Vietnamese Freedom Association in the 1960s. An active trade unionist, he was a socialist republican from an early stage and was much influenced by
143:, and ran a bookshop at 9 St Nicholas Church Lane; a second unconnected Maoist bookshop was also opened in the Shandon Street area but this was closed down following attacks by local people. After the Cork branch objected to the ICO's support for the
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Jim Lane was central to the anti-H-Block movement in the Cork region at the end of the 1970s and became the chairperson of the Cork City and County
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where they had a medium-sized farm. Jim Lane's mother, Mary Ann (nĂ©e Lane), was in Cumann na gCailĂnĂ and Cumann na mBan, the girls' and women's sections respectively of the
Republican Movement, from childhood until 1935.
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throughout the 1960s. This Cork-based group, which comprised a large number of left-wing former IRA members, produced an influential newsletter in the early to mid-1960s called
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socialist-republican alternative to the official
Republican Movement. The group disappeared at the beginning of the 1970s. The Cork branch of Saor Éire joined with the
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other Cork volunteers, such as his close friends
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The Burning of Cork City by British Forces, Dec. 1920
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by Matt Treacy (Manchester University Press, 2011).
236:"Lane to stand for H-Block",(Profile of Jim Lane)
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369:James Lane election History – Cork North Central
325:"200 Delegates establish Comhairle Na Mumhan",
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