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Republican Movement Split of 1969/1970

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Republican Movement Split of 1969/1970
Date1969-1970
Location
Status Resulted in split between Abstentionist and Electoralist factions.
Belligerents
Electoralists
Cathal Goulding (Chief of Staff of the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army)
Tomás Mac Giolla (President of Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin)
Roy Johnston (Anti-Treaty IRA Director of Education)
Seán Garland (Anti-Treaty IRA leader)
Abstentionists
Dáithí Ó Conaill (Officer Commanding, Donegal Unit, Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army)
Seamus Twomey (Anti-Treaty IRA leader)
Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (former Chief of Staff of the Anti-Treaty IRA)
Seán Mac Stiofáin (Anti-Treaty IRA leader)

The Republican Movement Split of 1969/1970 was a political conflict within the Anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army and Anti-Treaty Sinn Féin over several issues, most notably the issue of abstentionism and whether or not Sinn Féin would adopt an electoralist path.[1]

The conflict resulted in the creation of two factions within the Irish Republican movement: The Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political wing Provisional Sinn Féin, and the Official Irish Republican Army and its political wing Official Sinn Féin (later the Workers' Party).[1]

The Split

Leftward Shift and Move Towards Electoralism

Establishment of Provisional Council and Split

Leaders Involved

Aftermath

  1. 1.0 1.1 MÍCHEÁL MAC DONNCHA (2020-01-09). The Republican Movement split of 1969/1970 An Phoblacht.