Editing Irish Civil War (section)

==Foreign support==
The Civil War attracted international attention which led to various groups expressing support and opposition to the anti-treaty side. The [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] in its journal ''The Communist'' wrote "The proletarians of the IRA have the future of Ireland in their hands. If the Irish Labour Party would only dare! A mass movement of the Irish workers in alliance with the IRA could establish a Workers' Republic now".<ref>"Up the Rebels!" in ''The Communist''</ref> They were also supported by the [[Communist International]] (Comintern) which on 3 January 1923 passed a resolution stating it "sends fraternal greetings to the struggling Irish national revolutionaries and feels assured that they will soon tread the only path that leads to real freedom – the path of Communism. The CI will assist all efforts to organise the struggle to combat this terror and to help the Irish workers and peasants to victory."<ref>Communist International Resolution on the Terror in Saorsát Éireann, Workers' Republic, 6 January 1923</ref>

The majority of Irish-Americans supported the treaty, including those in [[Clann na Gael]] and [[Friends of Irish Freedom]]. However anti-treaty republicans had control of what was left of Clann na Gael and the American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic so they supported the anti-treaty side during the war.<ref>{{cite book|last=McMahon|first=Paul|title=British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916–1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vAF8TMJhyKsC&pg=PA115|year=2008|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-376-5|page=115|access-date=20 August 2019|archive-date=25 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191225194959/https://books.google.com/books?id=vAF8TMJhyKsC&pg=PA115|url-status=live}}</ref>