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At the Republian rally at Bodenstown in 1934, clashes occurred between Republican Congress supporters and IRA members. Congress suporters among the crowd of about 17,000 were estimated at between 600 and 2000. The IRA leadership did not authorise banners other than its own and ordered the Congress banners to be seized. The clash was given a Sectarian element by the attck on 36 Congress members from the predominantly Loyalist parts of West Belfast - they formed the Shankill Road branch - who caried a banner reading, "Unite Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter to break the connection with Capitalism". The banner was objected to by the IRA leaders as Communist . SOURCES
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