Category Archives: Saor Eire
Liam Sutcliffe commemoration
On Sunday (December 3) about 100 people attended a special political commemoration for veteran socialist-republican Liam Sutcliffe, who died on Friday, November 3 and whose funeral took place in Dublin on Tuesday, November 7.
See: Liam Sutcliffe: a revolutionary life
and Filmed Interview with Liam Sutcliffe
Liam Sutcliffe commemoration, Dublin, Sunday, Dec 3
Friends and comrades of Liam Sutcliffe have organised a commemoration to mark Liam’s passing and his contribution to Irish national liberation and socialism.
The commemoration will be starting at St Patrick’s Cathedral at 1pm on Sunday 3rd December and marching to Mount Jerome Cemetery.
This is an independent commemoration, so please no party political material, but all Republicans welcome.
The Liam Sutcliffe Commemoration Committee has set up a facebook page, here.
Repose and funeral details for Liam Sutcliffe
Liam by The Spire of Dublin, the monument which eventually replaced Nelson’s Pillar. Photo: Luke Fallon
Reposing at the Fanagan Funeral Home, Aungier Street, Dublin from 5pm until 7.30pm, Tuesday, 7th November, with family in attendance.
Requiem Mass at 11.30am on Wednesday, 8th November, in Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Whitefriar Street (Aungier Street), Dublin.
Funeral thereafter to Mount Jerome Cemetery, Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin 6W.
Liam Sutcliffe: a revolutionary life
Liam with other Saor Eire activists
by Mick Healy
Socialist-republican and former Saor Éire activist Liam Sutcliffe passed away suddenly at his home in Greenhills, Dublin on Friday 3rd November, 2017. His wife Bernadette, to whom he was married for over 60 years, died in February 2016.
Liam came from an historic Dublin working class area, The Liberties, and was recruited into the Irish Republican Army along with Tomás Mac Giolla in 1954. Within a few months he was operating as an IRA agent in Gough barracks in Armagh, passing important information to the Republican Movement.
This was part of the preparations for Read the rest of this entry
Liam Sutcliffe, 1933-2017
It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Liam Sutcliffe, a veteran of the IRA, Saor Uladh and Saor Eire.
Oh, and the blowing up of Nelson’s Pillar in 1966!
Liam died at home in Walkinstown (Dublin) on Friday.
Check out the filmed interview with him here: https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/interview-with-liam-sutcliffe-socialist-republican-veteran/
We’ll provide funeral details as soon as these are known.
From the IRA to Saor Eire: Remembering socialist-republican Liam Walsh
Liam Walsh’s funeral cortege, Dublin, October 1970
by Mick Healy
Liam Pearse Walsh, who was born in Dublin in 1933, was totally committed to whatever he did: to his trade as a fitter-welder or the Socialist Republican struggle. He was fiercely loyal to those around him: his comrades, family and especially his four young daughters.
Recruited into the Irish Republican Army by Liam Sutcliffe in 1954, Liam Walsh was active in Operation Harvest, the IRA border campaign of 1956-1962, eventually becoming the Commanding Officer of the South Dublin Unit of the IRA.
In 1957, he was interned without trial in 1957 in the Curragh Internment Camp in Co. Kildare. His girlfriend, Jacqueline 
Barry, and his father, Joseph,visited him and brought food parcels and cigarettes.
Shortly after they were married in 1960, Liam and Jacqueline, like many of their generation, Read the rest of this entry
Peter Graham – revolutionary militant
Peter holding Young Socialists banner, Dublin 1968
by Mick Healy
“In 1966 we in Ireland celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion (1916). The writings of James Connolly, which prior to then had been read little, and then only by the older hands’, began to be read more widely. The younger generation found through his writings that he was not quite as the Christian Brothers in school taught – “only the 7th leader’ of 19l6.” They found in his writings Connolly the revolutionary, the worker, the union organiser and Marxist”.
– Peter Graham, Workers Fight, June 1968.
Funeral of Peter Graham, Dublin, 1971; Tariq Ali at centre
Comrades who have read about the Irish Revolution know something about the contributions made by Nora Connolly O’Brien, Michael Davitt, Liam Mellows and Frank Ryan, but many do not understand the important contributions made by significant but lesser-known figures such as revolutionary Marxist Peter Graham. Peter came from 46 Reginald Street in the Liberties of Dublin and attended Bolton St College of Technology. Working as an electrician in CIE he was a shop-steward for the Electrical Trade Union. He joined the Labour Party, but discontented with their lack of radicalism shifted over to the Communist Party. Disillusioned with their reformism, he left and became involved with Irish Workers Group and then the League for a Workers’ Republic, an organisation openly declaring itself revolutionary and Marxist, identifying with the Trotskyist current of Marxism.
With single-minded dedication he was the Read the rest of this entry
