Crossing The Tracks
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Coup D’Etat
Biography
Not to be confused with the Auckland punk venue of the late 70s, or the Suburban Reptiles song of the same name, Coup D'Etat were a tight trouser new wave outfit of the early 80s formed b
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Two unconnected later groups, active in the late 1960s and early 70s, also had the name Saor Éire.
One was a Republican "urban guerilla" group formed by former IRA members and Trotskyists, also known as the Saor Éire Action Group. It was involved in a number of bank robberies to fund arms purchases in the late 60s. By 1975 it had dissolved.
Their manifesto, reportedly printed by Peter Graham using the presses of Red Mole in London (the publication of the International Marxist Group), is available in the archive here: https://www.leftarchive.ie/document/1712/
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Iain MacLean (he/him)
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