Seamus Costello
| Seamus Costello | |
|---|---|
| Wicklow County Councillor | |
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In office March 1967 – October 1977 |
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| Constituency | Bray |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1939 Old Connaught Avenue, Bray, County Wicklow |
| Died | 5 October 1977 (aged 38) North Strand, Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Irish Republican Socialist Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Sinn Féin (1955–1970) Official Sinn Féin (1970–1974) |
| Spouse(s) | Maeliosa Costello |
Seamus Costello (Irish: Séamus Mac Coisdealbha, 1939 – 5 October 1977) was a leader of Official Sinn Féin and the Official Irish Republican Army and latterly of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).
He argued for a combination of socialist politics on economic issues and traditional physical force Irish republicanism. He is best remembered for the founding of the IRSP and the INLA. He was a victim of a feud with his former comrades in the Official IRA.
Born into a middle-class family in Bray, County Wicklow, he was educated at Christian Brothers College, Monkstown Park. He left school at 15 and became a mechanic and later car salesman in Dublin.
At the age of 16 he joined Sinn Féin and the Irish Republican Army. Within a year, he was commanding an active service unit in south County Londonderry during the Border Campaign, where his leadership skills and burning down of the courthouse in Magherafelt earned him the nickname of "the Boy General". The unit's most publicised actions included the destruction of bridges.
He was arrested in Glencree, County Wicklow, in 1957 and sentenced to six months in Mountjoy Prison. On his release, he was immediately interned in the Curragh prison camp for two years.
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