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== Origins ==
One early mention of an Irish connection to [[anarchism]] was the [[Boston]]-based [[Irish nationalist]] [[W.G.H. Smart]], who wrote articles for ''The An-archist'' in 1880 and 1881.<ref>{{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]]|pp=119-120|issn=0951-4066|oclc=877379054}}</ref> In 1886, [[Michael Gabriel]], an [[Anarchism in England|English anarchist]], arrived in [[Dublin]] and moved to Bayview Avenue in the [[North Strand]]. He was a member of the [[Socialist League (UK, 1885)|Socialist League]], an organisation whose members included [[libertarian Marxist]] [[William Morris]] and anarchist Joseph Lane. A branch of the League was formed and it is known that anarchist publications were among those distributed by them.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Emergence of Modern Irish Socialism 1885-87|url=http://www.wsm.ie/story/1778|first=Fintan|last=Lane|year=1997|journal=Red & Black Revolution|issue=3|location=[[Dublin]]|publisher=Workers Solidarity Movement|oclc=924048574|pp=19-22}}</ref> Around the same time, [[George Bernard Shaw]] (1856–1950) wrote the article "What's in a name (how an anarchist might put it)" at the request of [[Charlotte Wilson]] for issue no. 1 of ''[[The Anarchist]]'' in 1885. Shaw had been taught French by the [[Paris Commune|Communard]] Richard Deck, who introduced him to [[Proudhon]]. Later he was embarrassed by unauthorised reprints, as he was a [[Fabian socialist]], not an anarchist.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} Irish writer [[Oscar Wilde]] notably expressed anarchist sympathies, especially in his essay ''[[The Soul of Man under Socialism]].<ref>{{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|pp=62–92|isbn= 1-84631-025-3|oclc=897032902}}</ref>
Around 1890 [[John Creaghe]], an Irish doctor who was joint founder (with Fred Charles), of ''The Sheffield Anarchist'', took part in the "no rent" [[Agitator|agitation]] before leaving [[Sheffield]] in 1891. He went on to become the founding editor in [[Argentina]] of the anarchist paper, ''El Oprimido'', which was one of the first to support the "organisers" current (as opposed to refusal to organise large scale organisations). In 1892 English anarchists visited Fred Allen at the Dublin independent offices to see if his Fair Trial Fund could be used for anarchist as well as [[Irish Republican Brotherhood]] prisoners.<ref>{{cite book|first=Owen|last=McGee|title=The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood, from the Land League to Sinn Féin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ngnAQAAMAAJ|location=[[Dublin]]|publisher=[[Four Courts Press]]|year=2005|p=216|isbn=1851829725|oclc=238617973}}</ref> In 1894 at [[Trinity College Dublin]]'s Fabian Society "over 200 students listened sympathetically" to a lecture on "Anarchism and Darwinism".<ref>{{cite book|first=Owen|last=McGee|title=The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood, from the Land League to Sinn Féin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ngnAQAAMAAJ|location=[[Dublin]]|publisher=[[Four Courts Press]]|year=2005|p=218|isbn=1851829725|oclc=238617973}}</ref>
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