sentences:  Going into the late 1920s though Clan na Gael, as most Irish-American organisation were, was struggling.Having limped past the split caused by the Irish Civil War, the rejection of Fianna Fail had caused a second split in the membership.Many Irish-Americans saw the IRA and Fianna Fáil as one and the same at that point and Clan na Gael and McGarrity's hostility to them caused much friction.