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Despite its small size ( According to the ISRP historian Lynch, the party never had more than 80 members ) the ISRP is regarded by many Irish historians as a party of seminal importance in the early history of Irish socialism and republicanism.

It is often described as the first socialist and republican party in Ireland, and the first organisation to espouse the ideology of socialist republicanism on the island.

During its lifespan it only had one really active branch, the Dublin one.

There were several attempts to create branches in Cork, Belfast, Limerick, Naas, and even in northern England but they never came to much.