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They smuggled guns, ammunition, and cash to the IRA; Kathleen Clarke smuggled gold worth £2,000 from Limerick to Dublin for Michael Collins. In line with Batt O'Connor, the Dáil Loan raised virtually £400,000, of which £25,000 was in gold. On 14 April 1922, a gaggle of 200 anti-Treaty IRA males occupied the Four Courts in Dublin beneath Rory O'Connor, a hero of the Struggle of Independence. Griffith's organisation Sinn Féin had been founded in 1905 as an umbrella group to unify all the varied factions within the nationalist motion. In 1914, the all-feminine paramilitary group Cumann na mBan was launched as an auxiliary of the Irish Volunteers.