Fianna Uladh (; "Soldiers of Ulster") was a minor Irish republican

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active in

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during the 1950s. It represented the political wing of

Saor Uladh Saor Uladh (; Irish for "Free Ulster") was a short-lived Irish republican paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland in the 1950s.Feeney (2002), p. 203. Seen as a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army, it was formed in County Tyron ...

, a splinter group of the

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. Formed in 1953 by Liam Kelly, the group was ideologically close to

Clann na Poblachta Clann na Poblachta (; "Family/Children of the Republic") was an Irish republican political party founded in 1946 by Seán MacBride, a former Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army. Foundation Clann na Poblachta was officially launched o ...

and sought the extension of the

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to the entire island.44 ''Seanad Debates'' col 346
Adopting a policy of

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, their activity helped to bring about the break-up of the

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in 1954. Fianna Uladh went moribund during the IRA's Border Campaign of 1956 to 1962, during which time Kelly was interned. After his release he emigrated to the

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and the movement was not revived.

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