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Some [[Sikh]]s held talks with Clan Na Gael, which led to authorities in Great Britain and [[British Raj|India]] fearing [[Irish-American]]s and [[Sikh]]s uniting against the [[British Empire]].<ref name="Mount1993">{{cite book|last=Mount|first=Graeme Stewart|title=Canada's enemies: spies and spying in the peaceable kingdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6vZi0OD6B-sC&pg=PA27|accessdate=24 December 2010|year=1993|publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd.|isbn=978-1-55002-190-5|pages=27–}}</ref> Clan Na Gael supported the primarily Sikh [[Ghadar Party]], and played a supportive role in the [[Hindu German Conspiracy]] in the United States during [[World War I]],<ref>Plowman, Matthew Erin. "Irish Republicans and the Indo-German Conspiracy of World War I," ''New Hibernia Review'' 7.3 (2003) 81-105</ref> which led to the [[Hindu German Conspiracy Trial]] in [[San Francisco]] in 1917–18.
Clan Na Gael largely controlled the [[Irish Race Conventions]] from 1916, and its affiliated group the [[Friends of Irish Freedom]]. The [[Irish War of Independence]] led to a split in Clan na Gael which was precipitated in June 1920 by [[Éamon de Valera]], who as President of the Irish Republic became involved in a dispute with Devoy and [[Daniel F. Cohalan|Judge Cohalan]] over lobbying US Presidential candidates on the issue of American recognition for the [[Irish Republic]]. To punish [[Woodrow Wilson]] for his apparent lack of support, the Clan backed Harding in the [[1920 United States presidential election]]. In October, 1920, [[Harry Boland (politician)|Harry Boland]] stated that the [[Irish Republican Brotherhood|IRB]] in Ireland had terminated connections between the Clan and the parent body in Ireland until the will of [[Dáil Éireann]] was mirrored in Clan na Gael. Devoy and Cohalan refused to accept this but McGarrity disagreed, believing that without IRB support, the Clan was not legitimate, which led to a split. McGarrity, whose faction went by the name Reorganized Clan na Gael, supported the Anti-Treaty forces during the Civil War while Devoy and Cohalan supported the Free State. After 1924, when the IRB and the Devoy-Cohalan Clan na Gael both voted to disband, McGarrity's faction became the sole Clan na Gael. In 1926, the Clan na Gael formally associated with the reorganized Irish Republican Army in the same fashion as it had with the IRB.
McGarrity continued to provide support and aid to the [[Irish Republican Army|IRA]] after it was outlawed in Ireland by de Valera in 1936 but became less active in the 1940s and 1950s following McGarrity's death in 1940. However the organization grew in the 1970s. The organization played a key part in [[NORAID]] and was a prominent source of finance and weapons for the [[Provisional IRA]] during "[[The Troubles]]" in [[Northern Ireland]] in 1969–1998.
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