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From 1931, the draft constitution and rules of Saor Éire: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/6252/

Saor Éire was a left Republican and communist organisation founded by members of the IRA in 1931 as “an organisation of workers and working farmers”.

It was banned by Military Tribunal, along with other Republican and Communist groups, in October 1931. (The ban was lifted the following March).

With the strength of reaction, the organisation never really got off the ground.

Saor Éire: Draft Constitution and Rules (1931) — Saor Éire [1931]

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A newspaper clipping, reading: The following associations have been declared by order of the Executive Council to be unlawful associations :— * Saor Eire. * The association styling and calling itself the Irish Republican Army, sometimes known as the I.R.A. or Oglaigh na hEireann. * Fianna Eireann. * Cumann na mBan. * Friends of Soviet Russia. * The Irish Labour Defence League. * The Workers' Defence Corps. * The Women Prisoners’ Defence League. * The Workers’ Revolutionary Party (Ireland). * The Irish Tribute League. * The lrish Working Farmers’ Committee. * The Workers’ Research Bureau.