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Date Posted: Sat, Jan 29 2011, 22:40:22 PST
Author: Danielle Ni Dhighe
Subject: Gino Gallagher: Fallen Comrade of the IRSM

Fallen Comrade of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement

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

Gino Gallagher, age 32, was an extremely charismatic and popular
republican socialist activist, admired across republican lines and
within the broader working class community. He was assassinated 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. Inspired
by the 1981 hunger strike and a strong interest in Irish history, he
joined the Irish Republican Socialist Movement's youth wing, the Patsy
O'Hara Youth Movement (named for one of the INLA prisoners who died
during the 1981 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 became the IRSP's
prisoner welfare officer and a 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 "Ta"
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, as well as being personally responsible for
assassinating several pro-British paramilitary figures within their
own community strongholds.

His energy and commitment to the causes of socialism and national
liberation were unequaled, 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.

http://www.irsp.ie/Background/fallen/gallagher.html

Article about the memorial unveiling:
http://tinyurl.com/2carfxp

Irish News biography of Gino Gallagher:
http://www.morrigan.net/irsm/gallagher-irishnews.htm

Funeral oration for Gino Gallagher:
http://www.morrigan.net/irsm/gallagher-oration.htm

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