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Kelly, James (1929–2003), army officer and republican, was born in the townland of Leiter, Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, on 16 October 1929, eldest of ten children (five sons – two became priests – and five daughters) of James Kelly, farmer, miller, publican and War of Independence Sinn Féin activist.
He was a key figure in the Arms Crisis.
Kelly became a vice-president of the Aontacht Éireann party on its formation by the former government minister Kevin Boland (qv) in 1971, and undertook a speaking tour of Australia to gather support for the party. His Australian talks formed the basis for The genesis of revolution (1976), which set out his analysis of the northern conflict: that guerrilla wars were caused by failure to address the injustice which caused the conflict and could not be defeated while that injustice remained; that the mere existence of partition, as a denial of northern nationalists’ identity, constituted such an injustice irrespective of whether northern nationalists’ other grievances were removed; and that any internal solution, even if it involved power-sharing, would be unacceptable since nationalists who participated in a partitionist administration would thereby cease to be nationalists. Kelly claimed that Lynch and his government, by refusing to back the northerners to the hilt, were principally to blame for the subsequent Northern Ireland troubles and were ‘a mere British puppet’ (Genesis, 89), actively colluding in the maintenance of partition.
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