Seamus Costello election leaflets from 1968 to 1977.

 Seamus Costello from Bray, County Wicklow was a leading Socialist Republican and a founder of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. Costello was assassinated  by the Official IRA in Dublin on 5 October 1977. At his funeral, Nora Connolly O’Brien said “he was the only one who truly understood what James Connolly meant when he spoke of his vision of the freedom of the Irish people.”  leaflets from election for Seamus Costello

1977 General election leaflet IRSP.

     1977 General election leaflet IRSP.

 

 1974 local elections he topped the poll for the Wicklow County Council and the Bray Urban District Council

1974 local elections he topped the poll for the Wicklow County Council and the Bray Urban District Council.

Leaflet from the 1968 Wicklow by-election Seamus Costello SF 2,009 votes.

Seamus Costello Sinn Fein Ard Dheis

Seamus Costello Official Sinn Fein Ard Fheis.

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