Billy Denvir, a committed socialist from the Twinbrook area of Belfast passed away in February.
From a family of dockworkers originally from the Sailortown area of Belfast, he was a follower of the ideas of Wolfe Tone and joined the republican movement as a young man. Throughout his life he stayed loyal to the concept of the unity of the working class whether Protestant, Catholic or Dissenter and remained supportive of the Workers’ Party.
Billy (on the right) is pictured as young man marching to the grave of Wolfe Tone in Bodenstown, County Kildare, in the summer of 1969.
