Irish Republican Army Part 02 · p.130

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Flannery
in Noraid Rift
The' setting up of An Cumann Saoirse/Irish Freedom Committee in the United States with
the support of Michael Flannery. is an important event.Flannery is not only the founder of
·Noraid, he is also the."Grand Old Man"of'militantIrishRepublicanism in this country.
PatrickFarrellyreportson thebackground to thedevelopment:
THE LATEST rift in Noraid
hasitsrootsin thehistoric
Sinn Fein convention held in
November1986thatdecidedto
drop the party's abstensionist.
attitudetoLeinsterHouse,the
parliamentinDublin.
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Noraid was set up by Flan-
nery and others to collect
fundsin the U.S.to help.the.
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dependants ofIRAprisoners
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in Ireland.The Irish.and
British.governments claim
thatNoraid'srealrole.isto
raise funds for theIRA.
IrishNorthernAidwas set
up after a split in the.Sinn
Fein/IRA movement in
Ireland atthestartofthepre-
sent Troubles in 1970.The
movement'splitfora.number:
ofreasons:WithLoyalist at-
tacks on theCatholicghettoes
inBelfast many of itsnorthern:
supporters felt that the IRA
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leadership was incapable or
unwilling to defend its people.
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parliaments.At conventions in.
1969and1970 theIRAandSinn
Mlchael Flannery, the man at the center of a rift In Noraid.
Fein split and the Officials and
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