gulding is not taking followers with him. there's an addition of the united irishman in that phase in the 1960s. which criticizes the practice of saying the rosary. now there's one regional ira leader, sean mcstepan, who later becomes a central figure in the formation of the provisionals who refuses to sell the newspaper because it's against his own religious values, and he's suspended for a period of time, but that really was an opportunity for the leadership to think, hang on, are we bringing followers with us, because what happens then when the conflict erupts in the late 1960s, the ira has not maintained its armments, it has a leadership. that's committed to a political pathway, and when the community looks to the ira to defend it, it just simply doesn't have the capacity or the the inclination, particularly to do so, which creates internal dissension leading to the formation of the provisionals, which is much more action driven organization perceiving a need to act in the immediate moment, so i think gulding's leadership

gulding is not taking followers with him, "there's an addition of the united irishman in that phase in the 1960s which criticizes the practice of saying the rosary. now there's one regional ira leader, sean mcstepan, who later becomes a central figure in the formation of the provisionals, who refuses to sell the newspaper because it's against his own religious values and he's suspended for a period of time, but that really was an opportunity for the leadership to think, hang on, are we bringing followers with us, because what happens then when the conflict errupts in the..." late 1960s, the ira has not maintained its armaments, it has a leadership that's committed to a political pathway, and when the community looks to the ira to defend it, it just simply doesn't have the capacity or the the inclination particularly to do so, which creates internal dissension leading to the formation of the provisionals, which is much more action driven organization perceiving a need to act in the immediate moment, so i think gulding's leadership is an interesting kind of micro case study itself of wha

pathway to this, and it's the 1960s, there's a general leftwood drift in progressive thinking, so gulding brings over roy johnston from the communist party of great britain, and they start to take a much more theoretically driven approach to the... now all of this is well and good, but what it does do is detach leader from followers. is not taking followers with him, there's an addition of the united irishman. in that phase in the 1960s, which criticizes the practice of saying the rosary. now there's one regional ira leader, shawn mcstepan, who no later becomes a central figure in the formation of the provisionals, who refuses to sell the newspaper because it's against his own religious values, and he suspended for a period of time, but that really was an opportunity for the leadership to think, hang on, are we bringing followers with us? because what happens then when the conflict erupts in the late 1960s, the ira has not maintained its armiments, it has a leadership that's committed to a political pathway, and when the community looks to the ira to defend it, it just simply doesn't have