yeah, i mean, i've currently got an article under consideration which looks at leadership in the irsp and inla. if we look at the main leadership figure in that organization until his killing in in 77. james costello, he forms the irish republican socialist party in 1974 and it's not without interest, i mean it takes a very progressive line on women's issues, where i think it has to be acknowledged that one thing about the world of the ira, it was very male and also very masculine, so i think there was interesting ideas coming out the irsp, and back from right then they were arguing for electoral participation, which again we see with the ira and shin fein, you have to wait until 1986 and the decision to contest... elections in the republican to take seats if elected, so it's not as though it didn't have an interesting political proposition to make the irsp, but costello had cut his teeth in that failed campaign of 56 to 62 and then seen goolding's leadership afterwards, and one of the things that it seems to me it frustrated him was precisely that any operatives, any volunteers had t

irsp and inla, if we look at the main leadership figure in that organization until his killing in in 77, shamus costello, he forms the irish republican socialist party in 1974, and it's not without interest, i mean it takes a very progressive line on women's issues, where i think it has to be acknowledged that one thing about the world of the ira, it was very male and also very masculine, so i think there was interesting ideas coming out the irsp, and back from right then they were arguing for electoral part. participation, which again we see with the ira and shin fein, you have to wait until 1986 and the decision to contest elections in the republic and to take seats if elected, so it's not as though it didn't have an interesting political proposition to make the irsp, but costello had cut his teeth in that failed campaign of 56 to 62 and then seen gulding's leadership afterwards, and one of the things that it seems to me at frustrated him was precisely that any operatives any volunteers had to be answerable to that political leadership and "this was a hindrance on getting anything