10/31/2023 0 Comments Blaze back upHe worked side by side with Malachy McGurran, the vice-president of Official Sin Féin until his death in 1978. Mr French was a member of the party's publicity committee in the early 1970s. He sided with the official wing of the republican movement following the late 1969 split that led to the formation of the Provisional IRA. The Workers' Party Ireland said Mr French "stayed the course" when "others abandoned our anti-sectarian, socialist ideology for personal gain, the false promises of social democracy, or the siren call of nationalism, or due to despair".īorn in 1934, Mr French was a member of Sinn Féin through the 1960s and later part of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association. He remained loyal to our principles to the end," the party added. "A civil rights activist, respected elected representative, poet & dedicated comrade, he led by example. Mr French, a teacher, a writer, an opera singer and publican for a time, was "motivated by a profound humanity and belief in a better future for workers at home and abroad", the Workers' Party NI said. His party said he was a "committed socialist" to the end. Tom French from Belfast, but who lived much of his life in Lurgan, died aged 88. A FORMER president of the Workers' Party has been remembered as a man "motivated by a profound humanity".
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