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Eamonn Melaugh

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Irish political activist

Eamon Melaugh (born 4 July 1933) is an Irish socialist, political campaigner and activist fromDerry,Northern Ireland.

He helped found theDerry Housing Action Committee (DHAC)[1][2] and the Derry Unemployment Action Committee (DUAC)[3] which campaigned for jobs and housing for Derry Catholics.

As a result, Melaugh and the DHAC became involved with theNorthern Ireland Civil Rights Association in the late 1960s.[4] He later contributed evidence to theBloody Sunday Inquiry.[5]

He was an active member of theWorkers' Party,[6] and stood as a candidate for it and its predecessor, Republican Clubs/Official Sinn Féin, in theFoyle constituency.[7][8]

Personal life

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Melaugh married Mary McLaughlin in 1956; the couple had 11 children, 4 daughters and 7 sons.[9] One son, Martin, curates theUniversity of Ulster'sCAIN website. His nephew is the writer, broadcaster, and comedianAndrew Doyle.[10]

References

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  1. ^"Irish Civil Rights". Irish Anti-Partition League. Archived fromthe original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved8 September 2022.
  2. ^Hastings, Max (1970).Barricades in Belfast: the fight for civil rights in Northern Ireland. Taplinger Publishing. p. 47.ISBN 978-0-8008-0665-1.
  3. ^Stout, Angela Kathryn; Richard Alan Dello Buono; William J. Chambliss (2004).Social problems, law, and society.Rowman & Littlefield. p. 352.ISBN 978-0-7425-4207-5.
  4. ^McMahon, Seán (1997).A short history of Ireland. Dufour Editions. p. 200.ISBN 978-0-8023-1319-5.
  5. ^Bloody Sunday Report (Volume 5, Chapter 86)Archived 3 November 2010 at theUK Government Web Archive Volume 5, Chapter 86.
  6. ^Presentation to Eamon Melaugh, Annual Northern Ireland regional conference of the Workers Party, Belfast (4 October 2008), youtube.com.
  7. ^Foyle Elections 1983-1992, ark.ac.uk; accessed 30 January 2018.
  8. ^Foyle Elections 1973-83 Eamon Melaugh Electoral history], electionsireland.org; accessed 30 January 2018.
  9. ^Eamon MelaughArchived 22 January 2011 at theWayback Machine, eaawsecohumanitarians.org; accessed 30 January 2018.
  10. ^"If the state had treated people equally, none of this would have happened". Spiked. 14 August 2019. Retrieved7 December 2020.
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