Sean Murray (politician)

Sean Murray (15 June 1898 – 26 May 1961) was an Irish Communist political activist, and organiser, born in 1898 the son of a small farmer in Cushendall, Co. Antrim.^[1] His grandfather was a United Irishman during the 1798 rebellion. In 1919 Murray joined the IRA and was arrested and detained in the Curragh Camp during the Irish War of Independence.^[2] Following the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 he sided with the Anti-Treaty side.

In 1924 Murray moved to London and while there joined the Communist Party of Great Britain.^[3] He was an attendee of the International Lenin School^[4] with Padraic Breslin and James Larkin Jnr.^[5]

Murray was general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) from 1933 to 1940 and the editor of its newspaper The Irish Workers' Voice.^[6] Following the split in 1941 he was Secretary and chairman of Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI) as well as National Organiser of the CPI.^{[citation needed]}

He represented the CPNI and the Irish Worker League at the 1960 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties.^[7]

• 'Revolt 1916 and After' by Sean Murray published by Communist Party of Ireland and Communist Party of Great Britain (1936)

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Further reading

• Byers, Seán (2015). Seán Murray : Marxist-Leninist and Irish socialist republican. Sallins, Co. Kildare: Irish Academic Press. ISBN 9780716532972.