| Republican Movement Split of 1969/1970 | |||||||
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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]