Jim Sullivan (c. 1932 – 16 September 1992) was a leading member of the Official Irish Republican Army from the lower Falls area of Belfast.
[1] He was chairman of the Central Citizens' Defence Committees established in the city after the burning of many homes by loyalist mobs in the 1969 Northern Ireland Riots.
[1] He also played an important role in the Falls Curfew, a three-day gun battle in July 1970 between the Official IRA and the British Army.
[2][1] In later years Sullivan played a leading role in the development of the Republican Clubs, which became the Workers' Party in 1982.
[2][3] His son, Seamus, was killed by the Ulster Defence Association at his workplace on Springfield Avenue just off the Falls Road on 3 September 1991.