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Colm was just eighteen years old when he was killed in the
William Street area of his native Derry by undercover agents of the
British state. As a politically aware youth growing up in Derry he
witnessed at first hand the brutality of the British Imperialist
stranglehold on his country and it was as a result of the occupation
that Colm took up arms, not only to defend his city from the British
but to fight for a workers' republic that would indeed cherish all the
children of the nation equally. Colm paid the ultimate price for the
love of his country and his people.
Remember him with honour and
pride.
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FROM:
STARRY
PLOUGH, FEB 1980
DERRY
TRIBUTE TO
COLM
McNUTT
In December, comrades, friends and relatives of the late Colm McNutt
participated in a commemoration ceremony to mark the anniversary of
his assassination by British undercover agents on December 12th 1977
at William Street car park. The ceremony took the form of a parade
from Creggan shops to the city cemetery, and was led by two of his
school friends carrying the national flag and the starry plough. At
the graveside, a brief and moving oration was delivered by Miss Stella
Makowski, an Irish American, granddaughter of the late Paddy Shiels
who was a republican army leader during the war of independence and
resided in the city until his death at Union Street in 1957. Ms
Makowski, who returned to Ireland at the beginning of the present war
for national liberation has for some years been associated with the
republican socialist struggle, and is at present a member o the
national executive of the Irish Republican Socialist Party.
Before
being invited to deliver her prepared oration, the chief
marshall of the commemoration, who was a close friend of the dedeased,
called on those present to observe one minutes silence for Colm and
all those who had given their lives in the struggle for freedom.
Following this wreaths were laid on the grave by various branches of
the Republican Socialist Movement, viz; Ard Comhairle IRSP, Dublin GHQ
Irish National Liberation Army, Belfast and Derry Brigades INLA,
editor and staff of the Starry Plough newspaper, South Derry IRSP,
Creggan, Bogside, Waterside and Rosemount cumainn IRSP as well as
personal floral tributes. Above the graveside the Irish tri-colour
flew at half mast through the ceremony.
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