Irish clans are traditional kinship groups sharing a common surname and heritage and existing in a lineage based society prior to the 17th century.
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“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)