 Complete the following phrase:  According to author and amateur historian Tom Mahon, There were many contradictions and weaknesses in ODonnells polemic. In reality, the IRA was a petit bourgeoisie conspiratorial organisation rather than a workers and peasants army. It was firmly rooted in the nineteenth-century concept of a nationalist revolution and its few socialists were largely peripheral to the organisation. Kevin OHiggins, a leading Sinn Féin activist during the 