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The party was small throughout its existence. According to ISRP historian David Lynch, the party never had more than 80 active members. Upon its founding one journalist commented that the party had more syllables than members. The party emerged out of the Dublin
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Connolly, who was the full-time paid organiser for the party, subsequently left
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