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Date Posted: Sunday, January 29, 21:25:19
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: Gino Gallagher: Fallen Comrade of the IRSM

Fallen Comrade of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

Gino Gallagher
National Organiser/Ard-Chomhairle Member - Irish Republican Socialist
Party
Chief of Staff - Irish National Liberation Army
Assassinated on 30 January 1996

Gino Gallagher was an extremely charismatic and popular republican
socialist activist, admired across republican lines and within the
broader working class community. He was assassinated on 30 January
1996 by a criminal mercenary acting on behalf of a small group of
counter-revolutionaries.

He was born on 12 October 1963 and grew up in West Belfast with a
strong interest in Irish history. Inspired by the 1981 hunger strike,
he joined the IRSM's youth wing, the Patsy O'Hara Youth Movement
(named for one of the INLA prisoners who died during the hunger
strike), and later joined the IRSP and the INLA. Imprisoned by the
British on three occasions, he emerged from prison a very dedicated
and well-read activist.

After his last release from prison in 1991, he took on the positions
of prisoner welfare officer in the IRSP and staff officer in the INLA.
By 1995 he was the party's national organiser and a member of its
national executive, as well as the army's chief of staff.

He was credited with helping to politically re-establish the IRSP,
renovating and re-opening Costello House (the IRSP's headquarters on
the Falls Road in West Belfast), and pushing the primacy of politics
within the IRSM in the tradition of Seamus Costello and Thomas Power.
He was also credited with helping to restore the reputation of the
INLA and ensuring that it remained subordinate to the political
direction of the IRSP.

His energy and commitment to the causes of socialism and national
liberation were unequalled and acted as an inspiration and example for
others to follow.

A memorial to Gallagher and other comrades was unveiled in the Lower
Falls area of West Belfast on 10 April 2003.

He died as he lived: a Republican Socialist. Remember him with honour
and pride.

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.irsm.org/fallen/gallagher/">http://www.irsm.org/fallen/gallagher/</a>

Article about the memorial unveiling:
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.teachnafailte.org/lowerfalls.htm">http://www.teachnafailte.org/lowerfalls.htm</a>

Irish News biography of Gino Gallagher:
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.morrigan.net/irsm/gallagher-irishnews.htm">http://www.morrigan.net/irsm/gallagher-irishnews.htm</a>

Funeral oration for Gino Gallagher:
<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.morrigan.net/irsm/gallagher-oration.htm">http://www.morrigan.net/irsm/gallagher-oration.htm</a>

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