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Brendan Scott (1933-1973), a native of Easkey, County Sligo, was a visionary socialist, secularist, human rights activist and internationalist who devoted his brief life to a wide range of progressive causes. After joining the Labour Party in 1963, he served as a branch and constituency council officer and as a Dublin Regional council and Administrative Council member. From the mid-1969s to early 1970s, a period of major political, economic and social change in Ireland and abroad, he was one of the most influential figures in the Party’s adoption of a range of radical socialist policies. In terms of policy, this saw the transformation of arguably the most conservative Labour Party in Western Europe into the most radical one. When Labour effectively abandoned those policies in the early 1970s, in preparation for a Fine Gael-Labour coalition government, Scott was a leading opponent of that development, campaigning for the retention ad development of the socialist policies while eschewing coalition with conservative parties. Widely regarded as one of the leading socialists of his generation, Scott was a constant champion of left unity and a key figure in the creation of a credible left-wing presence in the Party. A founding and prominent member of the Liason Committee of the Left, an informal socialist group within the Party, he was the first Editor of its publication, Liason.
An historian, school teacher, university lecturer and RTE television script-writer and presenter, Brendan Scott was centrally involved in many other progressive organisations, among them, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Ireland-USSR Society, the Irish Voice on Vietnam and the Dublin Housing Action Committee.
Of independent mind and outstanding integrity and ability, Scott was a charismatic and inspirational figure with an engaging personality and keen sense of humour. Intelligent, knowledgeable, articulate and modest, he had a profound knowledge of such subjects as philosophy, history, politics, education and literature. A superb public speaker, he was also an incisive writer. his most significant written work, his pamphlet, Labour and Socialism, was published posthumously within a month of his death.
In a unique tribute to Scott, Dr. Noel Browne, not known for his praise of others, described his socialist and secular colleague as ‘the incomparable Brendan Scott’.
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