Comments on: PETER GRAHAM FUNERAL, 30 OCTOBER 1971

By: Kieran Fagan

Kieran Fagan — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:11:14 +0000

The Gaelic version of Tariq Ali’s name going the rounds (my rounds anyway) sometime later was Terry Kelly. Try saying it with a Northern Ireland accent. And I do think that is Tom McGurk, sorry.

By: Stephen Meaney

Stephen Meaney — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:38:54 +0000

Tariq was renamed Macanally for those who quieried why someone Irish was not picked.

By: Stephen Meaney

Stephen Meaney — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:58:29 +0000

There are no pictures of Peter Graham.At the time I provided the one for the poster as nobody else had one,to our surprise.I still have some.

By: P.O'Neill

P.O'Neill — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:19:59 +0000

Yes Rayner Lysaght is the balding man in the photo taken in Deans Grange Cemetery at PeterGraham’s funeral. The tall blonde man is certainly not Tom McGurk, he was in fact an old friend of Peter’s from schooldays.There were many friends of Peter there from the Liberties where he grew up and where his family were still living quite recently .

By: alex overland

alex overland — Sat, 28 May 2011 16:33:36 +0000

Is that a younger tousel headed Tom McGurk & a balding Raynor Lysat aka Raynor Lighthouse that I see behind Charlie Bird ?

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:55:33 +0000

In January 1972 Mairin Keegan, a member of Saor Eire and the Socialist Labour Alliance - she was also the Fourth International’s representative in Ireland - died from a relapse in cancer that was brought on in no small way, it is reckoned, by the shock of Peter Graham’s murder. Keegan had been in Paris in ‘68. Many of the same people who attended Graham’s funeral, attended Keegan’s, which was held just ten weeks later. Both were in their twenties. I dunno. I just find that very sad.

The flat where Graham was murdered was in an old Georgian building long torn down, no.110 St. Stephens Green. It was at the corner of St. Stephen’s Green, opposite the St. Stephen’s Green South/West entrance, and across from Edward Carson and George Fitzmaurice house.

By: Seán Báite

Seán Báite — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:45:14 +0000

Strange request indeed - all we got to offer is a very 60s looking Bernadette Devlin (in the above post) - a few years before she nearly suffered the same fate as Graham.

By: Conor McCabe

Conor McCabe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:51:40 +0000

Bit of a strange request. Why do you want to see a picture of a woman at the graveside of her boyfriend? You doing a cover for a Smiths album or something?

By: burgess shale

burgess shale — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:43:25 +0000

Perfect. Now we need a picture of (current Arts Council of Northern Ireland chief exec) Roisin McDonough standing at the funeral of her boyfriend (IPLO leader) Jimmy Brown, in 1992. Yes, 92. Anyone?

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