Sean Murray (politician)

Sean Murray (15 June 1898 – 26 May 1961) was an Irish Communist political activist, and organiser, born in 1898 the son of a small farmer in Cushendall, Co.

In 1919 Murray joined the IRA and was arrested and detained in the Curragh Camp during the Irish War of Independence.

[3] He was an attendee of the International Lenin School[4] with Padraic Breslin and James Larkin Jnr.

[5] Murray was general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) from 1933 to 1940 and the editor of its newspaper The Irish Workers' Voice.

[6] Following the split in 1941 he was Secretary and chairman of Communist Party of Northern Ireland (CPNI) as well as National Organiser of the CPI.