A book "Executed: Tom Williams and the IRA" by Jim McVeigh was published in 1999 and gives a good insight into Belfast republican circles in the 1940s. The foreword is by Joe Cahill who was sentenced to death at the same time as TW but was later repreived. The hanging was because an RUC man, Patrick Murphy, who left a widow and nine children, was killed in an IRA action which went wrong. TW didn't fire the fatal shot but was executed as he was the IRA leader, although only 18 at the time. Cahill was 21. TW was buried within Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast. His remains were reburied in Milltown (in his family plot, not the Republican one) on 19 January 2000. The Port Glasgow Branch of the Celtic Supporters Club (in Scotland) is named after him. There are at least three songs about him, and indeed other IRA martyrs of the period, notably Maurice O'Neill and Charlie Kerins (both written by Brian O'Higgins - that most pure green of republicans who was Chairman of Sinn Fein in the 30s). The TW book can be ordered at www.btpale.ie price 7.99UK pounds.