The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America (IRSCNA} was founded in March 1984 in Saint Paul, Minnesota as a support group for the Irish Republican Socialist Movement. In 1998, it was formally recognised as the North American section of the IRSM. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Nickname: Location in Ramsey County, Minnesota Founded 1851 Incorporated 1854 County Ramsey County Borough {{{borough}}} Parrish {{{parrish}}} Mayor Chris Coleman (DFL) Area  - Total  - Water 145. ... The Irish Republican Socialist Movement in an umbrella term for the political-paramilitary grouping, the Irish Republican Socialist Party and Irish National Liberation Army. ... Political highlights of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. ...

There was discussion of whether to establish a distinct, partisan support group for the IRSM from at least 1981 (October of that year was the first time someone was allowed to join the Irish Republican Socialist Party while resident in North America), but it had been agreed that a broad front type of formation best suited the needs of the movement at the time. Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) describes itself as a republican socialist party and claims to be both Marxist-Leninist and republican. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

With the growing and increasingly overt hostility of the Provisional Republican Movement (Provisional Sinn Féin and the Provisional Irish Republican Army) toward the IRSM, it was determined by supporters in North America that it was no longer effective to attempt to work exclusively through broad front formations and the Ard-Chomhairle [National Executive] of the IRSP was petitioned for permission to establish a distinct support group for the IRSM. Provisional Sinn Féin is an Irish republican political party which evolved from the split in Sinn Féin and the IRA that took place in the late 1960s. ... The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA; more commonly referred to as the IRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the army or the RA) is an Irish Republican paramilitary organisation dedicated to the end of British rule in Northern Ireland and to a United Ireland. ...

Brigid Sheils Makowski from Derry represented the IRSP at the founding convention. Derry or Londonderry (in Irish, Doire or Doire Cholm Chille), often called the Maiden City, is a city in Northern Ireland. ...

Formal IRSP sanction and mandate was provided by the Ard-Chomhairle of the IRSP in a letter from the IRSP's then General Secretary in 1986.

IRSP recognition of the exclusivity of the IRSCNA's mandate for North America was reiterated by the Ard-Chomhairle in 1987. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

At the 1998 IRSP Ard-Fheis [National Convention] it was resolved that the IRSCNA would be recognised as a component section of the IRSM and its members would be accorded the full rights of members of the IRSP, including participation in closed sessions of the Ard-Fheis and voting rights at the Ard-Fheis.

External links

• Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America Official web site