Máirín Keegan

Gur fiend aid comrade Malin Keegan did ft hospital on the ani of famary thts year, She ooflapsed priv to fhe funeral of our Ord. Peter Graham and never recovercal Wher She died, the funeral whe received was a filting frbure fo ter whede fet work. Mer coffin wer draped in the Red Flag of the Fourth intematonal, the Starry Mourk end the fieolour dh on each aide ff war escort: 0 by a cortege compris af menibers of the AMG od Scor Bire, A cotour party dressed in banile forigwe fed ie vary ahd beh a ioge piper followed piyiig a coditienal foment A rolley of iarer ancts nag oul ay the hese followed fy fumareds set eut But it eas left to the Pree Siete fo pay the las and beat fibure 200) police surrowadad Cro. Keegan s erare! They showed they feared Aer ie death ax te fife Below we approdier extract from Raynor Uysal: preaveside oradiu.

Mairin’s whole life is the aboary at political development from the pure idealistic form of nationaliam, uncontaoinated (as far as posible} by material consaderalions, le the position of 2 dedicated dialectical materialist. She begin aod she always remained in the Gaclic League. Geer many years though she became increasingly dissatistied with the purely cultural and orally unpalitical outlook ol this body in the 1930s. In (962 however, she went to London and it was here that she saw for herself conachougly the seed for poliinal and socialist actraty-i even ber leon qaltural aims were to be achieved, Bul net ooly (his, she became more aware of the walur of the socialist gms in themselves. She began to examine the varoud leftwing movernent of the time. She rejected in turn (lann ma hBirearnn and the Connolly Association. It waa only when she was about to retire from the struggle that she discovered and jouned the Irish Workers Group. And it was from then onwards that she began to read, to analyse and to broaden her understanding of the iasues inwalved, She waa oot simply an armchair Marxes, ahe allied theory to action, lo May ]968 in Baris she tock part in the siruggle of the: workets und sludents which has opened (he new era of working class revolution, And in 2 ie Pe

= 4 ment along Stalinare lines:

The policy them he set up Muintir Walfe Tone to educate