and for a number of years IRSCNA members worked within that organization to provide trips to North America for the children of Irish National Liberation Army prisoners of war. One of the most notable of these trips was the stay by the two daughters of slain INLA volunteer Ronnie Bunting to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, which served as the basis for the documentary film, We Are a River Flowing. In 1987 the IRSCNA helped to establish relations with the government of Libya for the IRSM and in 1988 two IRSCNA members traveled to Libya on behalf of the movement. Members of the IRSCNA also represented the IRSP at a political prisoners' conference held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as well as numerous events within the United States and Canada. Between 1985 and 1992, the IRSCNA published its own quarterly periodical, Irish Workers' Republic, which provided the IRSM with valuable public exposure, during the difficult years for the movement, following its near destruction by the attacks launched against it by the Irish People's Liberation Organisation. At the 1998 IRSP Ard Fheis, it was resolved that the IRSCNA would be recognized as a component section of the IRSM and its members would be accorded the full rights of members of the IRSP, including participation in closed sessions of an Ard Fheis and voting rights at an Ard Fheis. In 2005, the IRSCNA was reorganized under a collective leadership called the Coordinating Committee. Co-founder and then North American Coordinator of the IRSCNA and co-International Secretary of the IRSP Peter Lorenzen and two members published a public resignation letter critical of the IRSP's Ard Comhairle, and the Ard Chomhairle responded by expelling those who signed the letter for attacking the movement. Since reorganizing, the IRSCNA held an Ard Fheis in Kansas City in 2008 and Chicago in 2009. The organization has cumainn (branches) in Detroit, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota., and Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2010, it was decided that only members of the Coordinating Committee would also have dual membership in the IRSP. The Coordinating Committee is composed of Tj Ó Conchúir and John Shook. See also Irish Republican Socialist Party Irish National Liberation Army References External links Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America Facebook page Irish republican organisations Irish Republican Socialist Movement Irish-American history