Its leaders included Peter Graham, Frank Keane (Former Commandant of the Dublin Brigade of the IRA), Liam Walsh, Joe Dillon and Martin Casey and Maureen Keegan of the Young Socialists.

[2] The group drew ideological inspiration from Leon Trotsky, Che Guevara, and Socialist Irish Republicans from the 1930s such as Michael Price.

Deaglán de Bréadún of the Irish Times writes that the group "probably never numbered more than a few dozen activists".

The group provided arms, training and funding to nationalists in Northern Ireland after the outbreak of the Troubles in 1969.

[3][4] Saor Éire was officially disbanded in 1975, although it remains a Proscribed Organisation in the United Kingdom under the Terrorism Act 2000.