Sticks Doherty - The Boy General (Seamus Costello)

Song about Seamus Costello, Irish Republican Socialist and the founder of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) - or collectively as the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM / RSM). Costello earned the nickname 'The Boy General' during his time in the Official IRA, where the active service unit under his command was formidable around Derry during Operation Harvest. Costello split from the Official IRA and Official Sinn Féin 1974, when he and other republican socialists founded the IRSP and INLA to continue the wage a National Liberation war the OIRA had ceased to.