Saor Éire

[2] However, Tim Pat Coogan claimed that Twomey was doubtful about the organisation, worrying about involvement in electoral politics and possible communist influence.

One hundred and fifty delegates from both the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland attended the conference against a background of police raids on the houses and offices connected with Saor Éire and An Phoblacht.

The party was formed by a socialist faction of the IRA in the late 1920s and 30s used the writing of James Connolly and Liam Mellows as their ideological basis.

[5] The conference elected an executive of Hayes, Fitzgerald, Sean McGuinness, May Laverty (Belfast), Helena Molony, Sheila Dowling, Sheila Humphreys, D. McGinley, Mick Fitzpatrick, Seán MacBride, Michael Price, Peadar O'Donnell, Mick Hallissey (Kerry), M. O'Donnell (Offaly), Patrick McCormack (Antrim), Tom Kenny (Galway), L. Brady (Laois), Nicholas Boran (Kilkenny), John Mulgrew (Mayo) and Tom Maguire (Westmeath).

This would build upon the day-to-day resistance and activity towards "rents, annuities, evictions, seizures, bank sales, lock-outs, strikes and wage-cuts."

As a consequence of the heavy influence of O'Donnell, Saor Éire strongly advocated the revival of Gaelic culture and the involvement of the poorer rural working communities in any rise against the Irish capitalist institutions and British imperialism.

A poster likely from the 1932 Irish general election , in which Cumann na nGaedheal accuses Éamon de Valera and Fianna Fáil of being aligned with Saor Éire.