"In 1965 he [Lawless] set up the Irish Workers Group (IWG), the first Irish Trotskyist group since the 1940s. The IWG was small, but politically formative for a number of people who subsequently played significant roles in the Irish left – in particular, the leaders of People’s Democracy in the North.Maverick socialist whose charm won him friends in unlikely places (Obituary of Gerald Lawless). The Irish Times, 28 January 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
