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Londonderry (Assembly Constituency)
Londonderry was a constituency used for the Northern Ireland Assembly. The seat was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973. Members were then elected from the constituency to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, 1975 Constitutional Convention and the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982, 1982 Assembly. After the Assembly dissolved in 1986, the constituency was not used again, its area being represented by parts of East Londonderry (Assembly constituency), East Londonderry, Foyle (Assembly constituency), Foyle and Mid Ulster (Assembly constituency), Mid Ulster. It usually shared boundaries with the Londonderry (UK Parliament constituency), Londonderry UK Parliament constituency, however the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 as the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes. For further details of the history and boundaries of the constituency, see ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Ireland Assembly
The Northern Ireland Assembly (; ), often referred to by the metonym ''Stormont'', is the devolved unicameral legislature of Northern Ireland. It has power to legislate in a wide range of areas that are not explicitly reserved to the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and to appoint the Northern Ireland Executive. It sits at Parliament Buildings at Stormont in Belfast. The Assembly is a unicameral, democratically elected body comprising 90 members known as members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs). Members are elected under the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (STV-PR). In turn, the Assembly selects most of the ministers of the Northern Ireland Executive using the principle of power-sharing under the D'Hondt method to ensure that Northern Ireland's largest voting blocs, British unionists and Irish nationalists, both participate in governing the region. The Assembly's standing orders allow for certain contentious motions to require a cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheena Conn
Sheena E. Conn is a former Northern Irish unionist politician. Background Born in Belfast, Conn studied at Queen's University Belfast, then worked as a school dentist. Sheena married Douglas Conn, President of the North Londonderry Unionist Association, and moved to Limavady, where she joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). Despite having no political experience, she stood for election in Londonderry at the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, and was successful,Ted Nealon, ''Ireland: a Parliamentary Directory, 1973–1974'', p.199 then held her seat on the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in 1975. Conn was also prominent in the Girl Guides Girl Guides (or Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) are organisations within the Scout Movement originally and largely still for girls and women only. The Girl Guides began in 1910 with the formation of Girlguiding, The ... leadership, and more recently has run a pick-your-own fruit farm. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Carr (politician)
Alan Carr (born 1948) is a former trade unionist and politician from Northern Ireland. Carr studied at Annadale Grammar School in Belfast and the New University of Ulster,''The Times Guide to the House of Commons May 1979'', p.48 at which he founded a Labour Club. He joined the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), and was first elected to its executive committee in 1970/71. Carr became a lecturer and administrator for the Open University, and was the NILP's leading figure from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, chairing the party for much of the period. While the British and Irish Communist Organisation claimed that he was a member of their group in the early 1970s, he was criticised by them later in the decade. He also led the expulsion of Peter Hadden's Labour and Trade Union Group from the NILP in 1977, and with the Newtownabbey Labour Party, which split away from the NILP following disputes over the Ulster Workers' Strike. Carr strongly opposed Michael Foot's leader ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Canavan
Heber Arthur (Ivor) Canavan, OBE (1929–1999) was a politician in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. On leaving St Columb's College, Canavan studied Engineering at University College Dublin. He returned to his native Derry in 1959 and commenced a lifelong career with Du Pont. In the context of a deepening political crisis, Canavan became an active member of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland shortly after its inception in 1970. Canavan was elected to Londonderry City Council in 1973. In December that year, he took part in the negotiations that culminated in the Sunningdale Agreement. Canavan was elected Deputy Mayor of Londonderry in 1974 and, the following year, became the first and only Alliance Mayor of Londonderry. In May 1976, the Canavan family home was bombed by the Provisional IRA. No one was in the house at the time of the blast. Canavan served as Chairman of the Police Authority (NI) Complaints Committee. from 1977-79. He resigned from this post and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Douglas (Northern Ireland Politician)
William Albert Boyd Douglas (10 January 1923 – 17 May 2013) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and farmer. Background Douglas worked as a farmer and served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He rose to prominence as Limavady District Master in the Orange Order The Loyal Orange Institution, commonly known as the Orange Order, is an international Protestant fraternal order based in Northern Ireland and primarily associated with Ulster Protestants. It also has lodges in England, Grand Orange Lodge of ..., leading protests against the civil rights movement, and organising loyalist demonstrations in Dungiven.Sydney Elliott and William D. Flackes, ''Conflict in Northern Ireland'', p. 235 William, also was a man that was capable of writing a catchy melody. He wrote tunes for bands and they are still played today regularly. Most of these tunes were used by his home band;Boveva Flute Band. Douglas was also active in the Ulster Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Campbell (politician)
Gregory Lloyd Campbell (born 15 February 1953) is a British Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Londonderry since 2001. As of 2024, Campbell is Northern Ireland's longest-serving current MP. He is the DUP Spokesperson for International Development. He was previously a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Londonderry from 1998 to 2016. Early life Campbell was born and raised in the Waterside area of Derry as an only child. He was educated at the city's technical college and at the University of Ulster. Political career He joined the DUP in the 1970s and was first elected to Londonderry City Council in 1981. Campbell briefly led the local DUP members out of the council in 1984 when it changed its name to Derry City Council, although he returned to his seat not long after. He stood down in 2011 after 30 years as a councillor. He was chosen to contest the Foyle constituency in the general elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Allen (Northern Ireland Politician)
Jack Allen is a former Northern Irish unionist politician and businessman from Derry. Political career Working as a businessman, Allen became a member of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). He was elected to Londonderry City Council. In 1974–75, he served as Mayor of Derry. Allen was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982, representing Londonderry. The following year, he became the Honorary Treasurer of the UUP.Health sees treasurer leave party , , 6 September 2005. In June 1984, Allen was appointed to the prominent role of Chairman of the Devolution Report Committee within the Assembly. In this position, he wrote three times to the leader of the |
Sinn Féin
Sinn Féin ( ; ; ) is an Irish republican and democratic socialist political party active in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The History of Sinn Féin, original Sinn Féin organisation was founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith. Its members founded the revolutionary Irish Republic and its parliament, the First Dáil, and many of them were active in the Irish War of Independence, during which the party was associated with the Irish Republican Army (1919–1922). The party split before the Irish Civil War and again in its aftermath, giving rise to the two traditionally dominant parties of Irish politics: Fianna Fáil, and Cumann na nGaedheal (which merged with smaller groups to form Fine Gael). For several decades the remaining Sinn Féin organisation was small and often without parliamentary representation. It continued its association with the Irish Republican Army (1922–1969), Irish Republican Army. Another split in 1970 at the start of the Troubles led to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin McGuinness
James Martin Pacelli McGuinness (; 23 May 1950 – 21 March 2017) was an Irish republican politician and statesman for Sinn Féin and a leader within the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) during The Troubles. He was the deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017. McGuinness served as the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency), Mid Ulster from 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 until his resignation in 2013. Like all Sinn Féin MPs, McGuinness followed abstentionism in the Westminster Parliament. Working alongside US Special Envoy George J. Mitchell, George Mitchell, McGuinness was also one of the main architects of the Good Friday Agreement which formally cemented the Northern Ireland peace process and established the Northern Ireland Assembly. In 1998, McGuinness was first elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (Northern Ireland), Member of the Legislative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Northern Ireland Assembly Election
The 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly elections were held on 20 October 1982 in an attempt to re-establish devolution and power-sharing in Northern Ireland. Although the Northern Ireland Assembly (1982), Northern Ireland Assembly officially lasted until 1986 (and was seen as being a continuation of the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention of 1975) it met infrequently. Electoral controversy The electoral system proved to be hugely controversial. While there was general acceptance that the elections should take part using the Single Transferable Vote system, the decision to use the same twelve constituency boundaries used in the 1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973 Assembly election rather than the new seventeen constituency boundaries which were later adopted in the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election was heavily criticised. The issue was that the Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland's Final Recommendations, which recommended that all future ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Unionist Party
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) is a Unionism in Ireland, unionist, Ulster loyalism, loyalist, British nationalist and national conservative political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1971 during the Troubles by Ian Paisley, who led the party for the next 37 years. It is currently led by Gavin Robinson, who initially stepped in as an interim after the resignation of Jeffrey Donaldson. It is the second-largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly, and won five seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 election. The party has been mostly described as right-wing"It will be ‘difficult’ for May to survive, says N Ireland’s DUP" , By Vincent Boland & Robert Wright. Financial Times. 9 June 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McClure (Unionist Politician)
William James McClure MBE (15 June 1926 – 3 August 2014) was a Northern Irish unionist politician, based in Coleraine, who served as President of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). McClure was also a Coleraine Borough Councillor from 1977 to 2014. Background Political career McClure was first elected in 1975 to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention representing Londonderry. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1982 for the same constituency. In 1977, he was elected to Coleraine Borough Council, representing the Area C District. serving as Mayor from 1983–84, and from 1997–99, and as Deputy Mayor from 1982–83, 1985–93, and 2004–05. He served on thColeraine Policing and Community Safety Partnership McClure remained a councillor until the reform of local government in 2014, which saw Coleraine Borough Council merge with the Limavady, Ballymoney Ballymoney ( , meaning 'townland of the moor') is a town and Civil parishes in Ireland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
