Martin J. Galvin (born January 8, 1950) is an Irish American lawyer, publisher and activist, and former director of NORAID.
[2] He previously worked as hearing officer for the New York City Department of Sanitation.
The following year Galvin returned to Northern Ireland to attend a funeral for an IRA member killed when a makeshift grenade launcher he was trying to fire at a Royal Ulster Constabulary barracks exploded.
[11] Galvin has criticised the Northern Ireland peace process as a betrayal of republican ideals,[12] and characterized IRA's decision to open up its arms dumps to Independent International Commission on Decommissioning inspectors as a surrender.
[13] On 28 May 2016, he attended a commemoration for PIRA volunteer George McBrearty in Creggan.