The founder of Sinn Fein called for strikers during the Dublin Lockout to be bayonetted.

 

Arthur Griffith

During the eleven months of the Irish Civil War (1922-23), more Irish were killed than had been killed during the War of Independence during (1919-21). Approximately 2000 people were killed during the War of Independence and it's believed that some 4,000-5,000 people were killed, during the Irish Civil War.

Ireland never became the socialist republic of James Connolly, it became the Catholic, Conservative, Nationalist, country, of Eamon de Valera and Fianna Fail. Abortion and contraception were banned and young pregnant unmarried girls, were incarcerated in Magdalene laundries run by sadistic nuns. Many leading Irish nationalists, like Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera and Arthur Griffith, were not socialists. They often believed that class struggle undermined Irish national unity.

During the Dublin Lockout of 1913, Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein, had called for the strikers to be bayonetted. In 1905, Sinn Fein's membership was based on shopkeepers, employers and large farmers. It opposed strikes for higher wages because it believed that it would harm the interests of Irish business.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), opposed the Marxist-Leninist direction of the Official IRA and viewed communism as an 'alien ideology' and a dangerous distraction from the primary goal of establishing an independent united Ireland. An early PIRA slogan was "We serve neither Queen nor Commissar." Some PIRA members did develop revolutionary ideas while imprisoned but the organisation remained nationalist rather than communist.