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[[File:Mayday 07.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Members of the Workers Solidarity Movement marching in Dublin during [[International Workers' Day|May Day]] 2007]]
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'''Anarchism in Ireland''' has its roots in the stateless organisation of the ''[[
One of the prominent figures in the Irish socialist republican movement was the syndicalist James Connolly, who led the formation of the [[Irish Transport and General Workers' Union]] along the lines of [[industrial unionism]] and fought in the [[Easter Rising]] as part of the [[Irish Citizens Army]]. Following the independence of Ireland and the rise of communist tendencies in the country, some left-wing republicans began to gravitate towards anarchism, including [[Jack White (trade unionist)|Jack White]], who himself became an anarchist while fighting on the side of the [[Republican faction (Spanish Civil War)|Republicans]] in the [[Spanish Civil War]].
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Before the [[Tudor conquest of Ireland|Tudor conquest]] during the 16th century, It has been suggested by some that [[Gaelic Ireland]] was largely stateless, being described as "anarchic" by the Irish historian [[Goddard Henry Orpen]], although this characterisation was disputed by [[Irish nationalism|Irish nationalists]] such as [[Eoin MacNeill]]. Gaelic Irish society was largely built around kinship and had few if any political institutions, with the [[early Irish law]] scholar [[D. A. Binchy]] having written about the absence of any [[legislature]], [[bailiff]]s or [[police]], and noting "no trace of State-administered justice". The historian [[Kathleen Hughes (historian)|Kathleen Hughes]] argued that one of the reasons that it took more than five hundred years for the English conquest of Ireland to finally be achieved, was precisely because of the lack of a centralised state in Ireland, as Irish people were reticent to give up their freedoms to any state.{{Sfn|Peden|1971|page=3}}
The basic [[polity]] form of Gaelic Ireland was the ''[[
Laws were passed down orally by a class of professional jurists known as ''[[Early Irish law|Brehons]]'' who could be consulted by ''
When the [[Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland|Anglo-Norman invasion]] established the [[Lordship of Ireland]] in 1171, native Gaelic institutions came under some strain as they attempted to adapt to the political system brought by the new state. The conquest of Ireland culminated under the [[House of Tudor|Tudors]], who established the centralised [[Kingdom of Ireland]] in 1542 and suppressed the [[Nine Years' War (Ireland)|last holdouts of rebellion]] by 1603, finalizing the "destruction of the old anarchic society".{{Sfn|Peden|1971|page=8}}
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==Origins==
[[File:Edmund_Burke2_c.jpg|thumb|right|[[Edmund Burke]], an early exponent of [[philosophical anarchism]] in his work ''[[A Vindication of Natural Society]]''
One of the earliest examples of anarchism in Ireland was in the early work of the Anglo-Irish political philosopher [[Edmund Burke]]. ''[[A Vindication of Natural Society]]'', though intended as a satire of [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke|Henry St John]]'s [[deism]],{{Sfn|Rothbard|1958|p=114}} elaborated one of the first literary expressions of [[philosophical anarchism]], which inspired the works of the English radical [[William Godwin]] and was later praised by the American individualist anarchist [[Benjamin Tucker]].{{Sfn|Rothbard|1958|p=117}} Some [[libertarianism|libertarian]] scholars have insisted that Burke was initially sincere in his anarchist views, but later disowned them in order to advance his political career,{{Sfn|Rothbard|1958|pp=114-118}} although this characterisation has since been disputed.{{Sfn|Smith|2014}}
===Socialism===
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* The Irish Anarchist Network is a network of anarchists founded in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leftarchive.ie/organisation/6310/ |title=Irish Anarchist Network (IAN) |website=Irish Left Archive |access-date=2023-03-20 }}</ref>
There are also a number of organisations and spaces which, while perhaps not explicitly anarchist, share much in common with the anarchist movement. These include the Grassroots Gatherings (2001–present), the Dublin Grassroots Network (2003–2004), Grassroots Dissent (2004–), Galway Social Space (2008–2010), [[Rossport Solidarity Camp]] (2005–2014), Jigsaw (
==See also==
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== Bibliography ==
*{{cite journal|url=https://libcom.org/library/raven-06|first=Heiner|last=Becker|title=The Mystery of Dr Nathan-Ganz|journal=The Raven|issue=6|date=October 1988|location=London|publisher=[[Freedom Press]]|pages=118–145|issn=0951-4066|oclc=877379054}}
*{{cite book|author-link=David Goodway|last=Goodway|first=David|chapter=[[Oscar Wilde]]|title=[[Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow]]|location=[[Liverpool]]|publisher=[[Liverpool University Press]]|year=2006|pages=62–92|isbn= 1-84631-025-3|oclc=897032902}}
*{{cite journal|first=John|last=Goodwillie|url=http://www.irishleftreview.org/2009/08/20/glossary-left-ireland-1960-1983-john-goodwillie-gralton-augsep-1983/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825221530/http://www.irishleftreview.org/2009/08/20/glossary-left-ireland-1960-1983-john-goodwillie-gralton-augsep-1983/|archive-date=25 August 2009|title=Glossary of the Left in Ireland 1960–83|journal=Gralton Magazine|issue=9|year=1983|location=Dublin|publisher=Gralton Co-operative Society|issn=0332-4443|oclc=1235535966}}
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