2 May, 1915 - 2004

Born in County Mayo just one year before the 1916 Rising in Dublin. Padraic Pearse and James Connolly would become his heroes as he grew to manhood. At age 15 he joined East Mayo Battallion of the IRA. Due to the depression he had to leave his homeland for work, and after a stint in england he travelled to New York in 1938. Served in U.S. Army during WWII. Would become a union organiser while working at Brinks Armor over the next thirty years. Stood outside the british consulate in New York every week to show support for Ireland's struggle for Independance. Was prosecuted, with others, in 1981 by the Reagan administration for "arming Irish freedom fighters." He and the others would become known as "the IRA Five." They did not deny the charges, and instead used a political defence. In the end, the five were aquitted. In 1987 he became a founding member of "Cumann na Saoirse Naisiunta" (National Irish Fredom Committee). This is an organisation in America through which Irish Americans can support Republican Sinn Fein in Ireland. Republican Sinn Fein is the only true Irish Republican political organisation to hold to all the precepts of the first Dail (1919). George Harrison was 90 years old at his time of death, and a True Republican to the very end.