The Irish Republican Socialist Party or IRSP (Irish: Pairtí Poblachtach Sóisalach na h-Éireann) is a republican socialist party active in Ireland. It claims the legacy of socialist revolutionary James Connolly, who founded the Irish Socialist Republican Party in 1896 and was executed after the Easter Rising of 1916.
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