Paddy Devlin
Paddy Devlin | |
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Devlin c. 1980 | |
| Member of the NI Parliament for Belfast Falls | |
| In office 1969–1972 | |
| Preceded by | Harry Diamond |
| Succeeded by | Constituency Abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Patrick Joseph Devlin 8 March 1925 Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Died | 15 August 1999 (aged 74) Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Party | Irish Labour (1948–1958) NILP (1958–1970) SDLP (1970–1977) United Labour (1978–1980s) LPNI (1985–1990) |
| Spouse | Theresa Devlin |
| Children | 5 |
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Patrick Joseph Devlin (8 March 1925 – 15 August 1999) was an Irish socialist, labour, and civil rights activist and writer from Belfast. He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), a Stormont MP and a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive.
Described as a "relentless campaigner against sectarianism", Devlin had once been a member of the IRA but later renounced physical force republicanism to work at transcending sectarian differences through peaceful, socialist and nationalist political means.