 In 1933 MacSwiney resigned from Cumann na mBan, and founded Mná na Poblachta instead.In 1934 she resigned from Sinn Féin when Fr Michael O'Flanagan was elected president since he was a Free State civil servant.MacSwiney remained strongly in favour of the violent independence movement and put her approval behind the IRA even when they were responsible for the deaths of 73-year-old retired vice-admiral Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville and John Egan.