Obituaries

The 10 deaths marked in these pages, from Peter Graham of the Revolutionary Marxist Group in 1971 to the hunger strikers of 1981: comrades, republicans and the daughter of James Connolly. In order of death.

Found by reading every article in the collection, not only those headed as obituaries; some were set inside another story, and that is noted. Items in the Fourth International press are linked where they are held. Dates of death are from the obituary where it gives one, otherwise from the record. The obituaries of every Red Mole archive are together at archives.redmole.org/obituaries/.

• Peter Graham died 25 October 1971
  Tribute to Peter Graham in The Plough, c. November 1971 · a founder of the Revolutionary Marxist Group, shot dead in Dublin; the Plough's tribute calls itself "a political statement" as much as an obituary
  Peter Graham (continued) in The Plough, c. November 1971 · the tribute's second part
• Máirín Keegan died 7 January 1972
  Máirín Keegan in The Plough, c. February 1972 · collapsed before Peter Graham's funeral and died in hospital in Dublin on 7 January (date from the Red Mole's obituary); with an extract from Rayner Lysaght's graveside oration
• James P. Cannon died 21 August 1974
  Cannon obituary in The Plough, c. summer 1974 · set inside another article on the same page · founder of American Trotskyism; a short notice
• Billy McMillan died 28 April 1975
  Intercontinental Press, 9 June 1975 in the Fourth International press · Official republican leader in the Lower Falls, shot dead in Belfast
• Frank Stagg died 12 February 1976
  Inprecor, 19 February 1976 (in French) in the Fourth International press · died on hunger strike in Wakefield prison; a statement of the Fourth International's executive
• Miriam Daly died 26 June 1980
  People's Democracy pays tribute to Miriam Daly in Socialist Republic, 1980 · set inside another article on the same page · H-Block campaigner, killed by loyalists in Belfast
• Bobby Sands died 5 May 1981
  Imperialism Murders Bobby Sands in Socialist Republic, May 1981 · MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, the first of the ten hunger strikers to die
  Responsibility for the death of Bobby Sands MP and Francis Hughes in Socialist Republic, 1981 · the front-page statement
  Intercontinental Press, 18 May 1981 in the Fourth International press · his funeral, "the biggest nationalist protest in Northern Ireland's history"
  Inprecor, 25 May 1981 (in French) in the Fourth International press · after the deaths of the first hunger strikers; in Spanish in Inprecor, July 1981
• Francis Hughes died 12 May 1981
  Responsibility for the death of Bobby Sands MP and Francis Hughes in Socialist Republic, 1981 · the second hunger striker to die; the front-page statement
  Intercontinental Press, 25 May 1981 in the Fourth International press · on his funeral
• Nora Connolly O'Brien died 17 June 1981
  She Could See the Revolution Itself in Socialist Republic, August 1981 · daughter of James Connolly; a tribute in the form of an interview with Rayner Lysaght
• Joe McDonnell died 8 July 1981
  Intercontinental Press, 20 July 1981 in the Fourth International press · the fifth hunger striker to die

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