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Date Posted: Mon, Mar 10 2008, 17:06:36 PDT
Author: Terry Gavin
Subject: LATE PATRICK SULLIVAN - LONDON.

Irish republicans in London and Ireland will be saddened to hear of the death last week in Wimbledon of Patrick 'Paddy' Sullivan.

Paddy came from a staunch republican family in Cahirciveen in Co Kerry and was a life-long activist and campaigner.

I first met Paddy way back in 1952 soon after I arrived in England to take up my training as a nurse. At that time - just prior to the 1956-62 campaign - there were still a good number of Irish PoW's iimprisoned in England from the war years who's families had fallen on hard times.

Dublin headquarters gave us the green-light to set up a Sinn Fein cumann in South London to raise badly-needed funds etc, so Paddy Sullivan gathered some dependable people around him and a cumann committee was elected.
I remember we had some good people with us - people like Paddy Quinlan, Pat Crowe, Mary Farrelly and Sheila Burns, myself and of course Paddy sullivan - who was elected chairman. The cumann was known as the 'Dunn-O'Sullivan-McInerney Sinn Fein cumann.'

Soon Paddy had us all out fund-raising - collecting outside church gates on Sunday mornings, Irish dance halls on Saturday nights, and selling the 'United Irishman' newspaper which was the official organ of the movement at the time.

Paddy was an unassuming man, a dedicated republican and helpful to all us youngsters at the time. He was an authority on Irish history and a pleasure to listen to. He will be greatly missed. Such men are rare today.
I wish to send my deepest sympathy to his family and extended family in Ireland and England.
May he rest in peace.
'I measc lochra na Gael go raibh a Anam.'

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