Malone has been an Irish republican activists for the better part of five decades. He was tried for smuggling weapons to the Irish Republican Army in the 1970s, when the local press dubbed him the "Golden Gate Gun Runner" and in the 1980s did time in Federal Prison again on arms charges.

In his final years, Malone was associated with Republican Sinn Fein, though he is probablly best known to activists throughout the United States for his many years heading the American support group for Na Fianna Eireann. In that capacity, Malone had often brought the groups adult and child members out to the St. Patrick's Day Parade, where they marched in military formation in green woolen uniforms.

Never one to engage in political sectarianism, Malone had assisted Irish republicans of all stripes over the years, including selling the "Starry Plough" of the IRSP and providing harbor for a young man who was later to be arrested with INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey. In appreciation and recognition of his life-long devotion to the Irish republican struggle, the Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America had invited a member of RSF's Ard Comhairle to San Francisco, where he presented an illuminated scroll to Malone's son Sean recognizing Malone's devotion to the cause.

Charles Malone will be missed by many Irish republican activists across the United States and in Ireland. He remained throughout his life a good soldier, and I believe that is the tribute that he would like to be remembered by.

The Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America bid farewell to this fallen comrade. He was an inspiration to us all.