Remembering Seamus Costello : Of all the politicians and political people with whom I have had conversations, and who called themselves followers of Connolly, he was the only one who truly understood what James Connolly meant when he spoke of his vision of the freedom of the Irish people.

Today we remember Seamus Costello, the legendary 'Boy General' from Bray, County Wicklow. Costello was a veteran of the Border Campaign and a dedicated socialis...t republican who played a key role in the republican movements decision to move to the political left in the 1960's.

Elected as a Wicklow County Councillor, like James Connolly, Costello believed in the unity of the class and national struggle in Ireland and was a towering figure of revolutionary republicanism.

On October 5 1977 Seamus Costello was murdered by counter revolutionary forces as he sat in his car on the North Strand Road in Dublin.

Speaking about Seamus, Nora Connolly O' Brien (daughter of James Connolly) said, 'I had so much hope in him. To me, he expressed himself so much on my father's line of thought that it was evident that he had been a thorough reader of all James Connolly's writings.

He seemed to be the leader who would bring about an organisation such as my father wished to bring about. Of all the politicians and political people with whom I have had conversations, and who called themselves followers of Connolly, he was the only one who truly understood what James Connolly meant when he spoke of his vision of the freedom of the Irish people. In him, I had hoped at last after all these years, a true leader had come, who could and would build an organisation such as James Connolly tried to do.'

Source Eirigi