Irish Revolutionary Forces
| Irish Revolutionary Forces | |
|---|---|
| Leaders | Irish Republican Army |
Irish Revolutionary Forces (IRF) was a short-lived
Irish republican paramilitary organisation in Cork
in the 1960s.
In 1963
Gardaí in 1940) was also buried there. They demanded that militant action be taken but were refused permission by the IRA's leadership. The night before the planned ceremony two veterans of the IRA's Border Campaign, Desmond Swanton and Gerry Madden, were killed and seriously injured in a botched attempt to blow up the memorial. The IRA denied responsibility for the attack but acknowledged the two men had been members of the organisation. The IRA's local leadership also denied Swanton a full IRA funeral and expelled several of Swanton's allies from the organisation. The dismissed members distributed leaflets declaring they were forming a new group; senior IRA figure Seán Mac Stíofáin responded by raiding the new organisation's premises. In turn, the dissidents intercepted copies of the IRA's newspaper intended for sale in the Cork and put on an armed show of strength at the newspaper's offices in the city. Cathal Goulding tried to broker a compromise but negotiations fell apart and tension grew between the two factions.[1]
Within a year the new Republican group was calling itself the Irish Revolutionary Forces and publishing a journal named An Phoblacht. Ideologically the IRF espoused
Provisional IRA offering a more promising militant organisation.[2]
References
- ^ The Lost Revolution by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar, Penguin Ireland, 2009 (pg.117)
- ^ "Miscellaneous Notes on Republicanism and Socialism in Cork City, 1954–69". 2005.
Further reading
- Hanley, Brian; Millar, Scott (2009). The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party. Dublin: Penguin Ireland. ISBN 978-1-84488-120-8.