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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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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 ''tuatha'' and enforced by groups of private individuals through a system of [[Surety|sureties]], which were the basis for almost all legal transactions. Common tactics to resolve disputes included mutual fasting between plaintiffs and defendants, in which the one that broke their fast or refused to submit to adjudication would "los[e] their honor within the community", with the harshest punishments that communities dealt out being outlawing and exile.{{Sfn|Peden|1971|page=4}} The Gaelic Irish also did not mint nor issue their own coinage, despite Viking and later English colonists having done so, which allowed for fair and equal exchange to take place.{{Sfn|Peden|1971|pages=4, 8}}
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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 (
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