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The Wolfe Tone Society and the Communists
2013,2011
Overview
Goulding and those close to him after 1962 quickly came to the conclusion that by itself Sinn Féin was not an adequate vehicle for their political ambitions. Instead, they decided to establish an organisation that they hoped would draw in a wider group of individuals who were sympathetic to republicanism but antipathetic to Sinn Féin and the IRA. A March 1969 memo from Peter Berry suggests that they were persuaded of the merits of this by ‘suggestions from left-wing sources’ outside the movement.¹
The main vehicle for the new departure was the Wolfe Tone Society, which was established to organise
