Malachy McGurran (1938 – 27 July 1978) was a leading Irish republican and founding member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, of which he was chairman.
[1] A native of Lurgan, County Armagh, McGurran joined Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army in 1955.
[2] He represented Official Sinn Féin on a speaking tour of the United States in the early 1970s when the party was trying to promote its case and separate itself in the public mind from the Provisional IRA.
[4] He polled 5,138 votes (8.2% of the total) as a Republican Clubs candidate in Armagh for the October 1974 Westminster election.
[7] Malachy McGurran was a vice-president of Sinn Féin the Workers Party when he died of bone cancer aged 38 on 27 July 1978.