Sean Murray (politician)

Irish 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]

## Publications

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

## References

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Notes

1. ^ Book Launch Sean Murray Marxist-Leninist
2. ^ Sean Murray www.grahamstevenson.com
3. ^ Sean Murray, 1898-1961, And The Pursuit Of Stalinism In One Country Archived 2020-03-28 at the Wayback Machine by Stephen Bowler, Irish Labour History Society.
4. ^ "Delegated to the "New World"". 6 February 2013.
5. ^ White, Lawrence William (2009). "Breslin, Padraic". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. ^ "1916-1966". 1966.
7. ^ Treacy, Matt (2012). The Communist Party of Ireland 1921 - 2011. ISBN 9781291093186.

Further reading

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

Party political offices

New office |  General Secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland
1933–1940  | Succeeded by

Tommy Watters

New office |  General Secretary of the Communist Party of Northern Ireland
1941–1942  | Succeeded by

William McCullough

New office |  Chairman of the Communist Party of Northern Ireland
1942–1961  | Succeeded by

Andy Barr?

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