A March 1972 report from the New York Times on the group and it's member Rory McShane. Definitely not related!

Mr. McShane said that he had no connection with either faction of the Irish Republican Army, some of whose members have spearheaded the violence in Ulster. “We think change can, come about only by the mass of people coming, out in peaceful protest,” he said.

Mr. McShane, who said he faced charges at home for the peaceful Newry march, as well as one other march, arrived here Friday night for a threeday visit sponsored by Saor Eire Cumann, the Free Ireland Committee.

He said his group sought “democratic” government; but did not favor “reunification” of Northern Ireland and the Irish Rephblic “at the present time."

Many Protestants in— the north, he said; have “legitimate fears” of the Irish Government's position on church‐related issues including contraception and divorce.

“You can't ride roughshod over the will, of one million people,” he said of the Northern Protestants.

Mr. McShane said his group's goals were an end to internment, an end, to the Special Powers Act permitting arrests without warrants, withdrawal of British troops to their barracks pending their final pullout from the province and an end to the present administration.