Post by dangeresque on Jun 5, 2007 20:38:55 GMT
Fallen Comrades of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement
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John Morris
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Killed in Action on 5 June 1997
John Morris, aged 26, from Sundale Close, Tallaght, County Dublin,
died in hospital a day after being shot by Irish police during an
INLA expropriation in Goldenbridge Industrial Estate, Inchicore,
County Dublin.
The gun he used was unloaded and he offered to surrender when the
police arrived. Despite early press reports to the contrary, it was
later clarified at an inquest that he had been shot seven times in
the back and in the head.
He was a recruitment officer for the INLA in South Dublin as well as
a prominent anti-drugs activist in Tallaght. The INLA identified him
as a member on active duty at the time he was killed. Three other
INLA members who were with him during the expropriation were jailed
by the Special Criminal Court on 11 March 1998.
He was buried in Dublin's Bohernabreena Cemetery with paramilitary
honours from a twelve man INLA colour party, and there was a large
police presence.
His family announced in May 2003 that they would sue the Irish
government for wrongful death. In March 2004, the Irish High Court
ruled against his family's attempt to challenge the coroner's
decision not to release statements and other material relating to
the investigation before the inquest.
A memorial to Morris was unveiled above his grave in Bohernabreena
Cemetery on 13 June 2004.
www.irsm.org/fallen/morris/
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Brendan McNamee
Member - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Staff Officer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 6 June 1975
Brendan McNamee, aged 22, was assassinated by the Official Irish
Republican Army on the Stewartstown Road in West Belfast during a
period when the increasingly counter-revolutionary OIRA was trying to
smash the recently formed IRSM.
From West Belfast and a former member of the Provisional IRA, he
joined the IRSP and the INLA when they were formed in December 1974.
A memorial to McNamee and another comrade was unveiled in the
Andersonstown area of West Belfast on 22 June 2003.
www.irsm.org/fallen/mcnamee/
*******
They died as they lived: as Republican Socialists. Remember them with
honour and pride.
*******
John Morris
Volunteer - Irish National Liberation Army
Killed in Action on 5 June 1997
John Morris, aged 26, from Sundale Close, Tallaght, County Dublin,
died in hospital a day after being shot by Irish police during an
INLA expropriation in Goldenbridge Industrial Estate, Inchicore,
County Dublin.
The gun he used was unloaded and he offered to surrender when the
police arrived. Despite early press reports to the contrary, it was
later clarified at an inquest that he had been shot seven times in
the back and in the head.
He was a recruitment officer for the INLA in South Dublin as well as
a prominent anti-drugs activist in Tallaght. The INLA identified him
as a member on active duty at the time he was killed. Three other
INLA members who were with him during the expropriation were jailed
by the Special Criminal Court on 11 March 1998.
He was buried in Dublin's Bohernabreena Cemetery with paramilitary
honours from a twelve man INLA colour party, and there was a large
police presence.
His family announced in May 2003 that they would sue the Irish
government for wrongful death. In March 2004, the Irish High Court
ruled against his family's attempt to challenge the coroner's
decision not to release statements and other material relating to
the investigation before the inquest.
A memorial to Morris was unveiled above his grave in Bohernabreena
Cemetery on 13 June 2004.
www.irsm.org/fallen/morris/
*******
Brendan McNamee
Member - Irish Republican Socialist Party
Staff Officer - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 6 June 1975
Brendan McNamee, aged 22, was assassinated by the Official Irish
Republican Army on the Stewartstown Road in West Belfast during a
period when the increasingly counter-revolutionary OIRA was trying to
smash the recently formed IRSM.
From West Belfast and a former member of the Provisional IRA, he
joined the IRSP and the INLA when they were formed in December 1974.
A memorial to McNamee and another comrade was unveiled in the
Andersonstown area of West Belfast on 22 June 2003.
www.irsm.org/fallen/mcnamee/
*******
They died as they lived: as Republican Socialists. Remember them with
honour and pride.
