Jim Sullivan (Irish Republican)
- Jim Sullivan (Irish Republican)
Jim Sullivan (died September 16 1992) was a leading member of the Official Irish Republican Army from the Lower Falls area of Belfast. Sullivan was second in command of the Belfast Brigade of the Official IRA (under Billy McMillen) and played an important role in events in Belfast during the late 1960s and early 1970s. 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. 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.
In later years Sulivan played a leading role in the development of Republican Clubs which became the Workers Party of Ireland in 1982. In 1973 he was elected to Belfast City Council for that party and retained his seat until he retired in the late 1980s.
On 3 September 1991 Jim Sullivan's youngest son, 24 year old Seamus, was shot dead by members of the Ulster Defence Association on his first day of employment at the Belfast City Council refuse collection depot on Springfield Avenue. His murder was regarded as a random sectarian murder of a Catholic rather than having any connection with his father's political activity.
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