Irish Northern Aid and how Irish Americans engaged with the conflict in NI
As in Ireland, support peaked during the early years of the conflict, particularly after internment and Bloody Sunday. Again, as in Ireland, IRA atrocities dampened enthusiasm and made raising funds more difficult.
There is no doubt how important these networks were to the early Provos, but they soon drew the attention of American law enforcement. By the mid-1970s Conlon and four of his comrades would face gunrunning charges, the background to which case forms a large part of the book. The IRA were forbidden to take action against the Garda by a general order, not through a “gentleman’s agreement”. Bernadette Devlin would have been at pains to point out she was anything but a “staunch Irish nationalist” in 1969. “Provisional adjacent” is not an adequate description of the politics of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The UDR was a regiment of the British army, not a paramilitary group. The paper sold by the Provisionals in Belfast was Republican News, not An Phoblacht.
The role of the Official IRA during the Falls curfew is elided, yet every account of the fighting notes their centrality to it. That the Officials were never “absorbed” into the Provisionals is evident from the fact that 50 years ago both organisations engaged in what The Irish Times described as the “worst fighting between republicans since the Civil War”.
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