Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State 1925-1937 Richard English (Clarendon Press, £35)

(3:1) Reviewed by Emmet O’ConnorIn February 1925, the Communist International activated two ‘front’ organisations in Ireland, International Class War Prisoners’ Aid and Workers’ International Relief. Their function was to channel welfare to dependants of IRA prisoners and victims of the near famine conditions then afflicting small-holders in the West. Their aim was to draw republicans ... Read more

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