The National Democrats were a small party in Northern Ireland founded by members of the Nationalist Party who previously attempted to get the Nationalists to adopt a constituency based structure with a party conference and agreed party programme. Northern Ireland is one of four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ... The Nationalist Party existed under various froms from 1874 to 1973. ... A constituency (often called ridings)is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. ...

The National Democrats held the constituency of Belfast Central in the Parliament of Northern Ireland from 1966 to 1969. The party was absorbed into the Social Democratic and Labour Party in 1970. The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the home rule legislature created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which existed from June 7, 1921 to March 30, 1972, when it was suspended. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP — Irish: Páirtí Sóisialta Daonlathach an Lucht Oibre) is the smaller of the two major nationalist parties in Northern Ireland. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

Although never politically significant in their own right, the National Democrats were part of the break up of the political arrangements that had dominated Northern Ireland from 1922 to the early 1960s - a dominant and largely monolithic Ulster Unionist Party using sectarianism, discrimination and gerrymandering as instruments of policy and a sullen and largely timid Catholic minority electing politicians who regarded participation in a state they regarded as illegitimate as a waste of time. 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP, sometimes referred to as the Official Unionist Party or OUP) is a political party in Northern Ireland representing the unionist community, and was the party of government in Northern Ireland between 1921 and 1972. ... Sectarianism is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination. ... To discriminate is to make a distinction. ... Printed in 1812, this political cartoon illustrates the electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favor the Jeffersonian Republican party candidates. ...

In the 1960s this set up was challenged from all sides: by a mildly progressive Unionist leader, Terence O'Neill, by a resurgent Northern Ireland Labour Party as well as other Labour figures such as Gerry Fitt and Paddy Devlin, by progressive Nationalists such as the National Democrats and individuals such as John Hume and Austin Currie and other civil rights activists and at what seemed like the more extreme fringes, hard line Unionists such as Ian Paisley and a growing and Communist-inspired IRA. Captain Terence ONeill, Baron ONeill of the Maine (September 10, 1914 - June 12, 1990), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. ... The Northern Ireland Labour Party was a political party which operated from 1924 until the 1980s. ... Gerrard Gerry Fitt, Baron Fitt (born 9 April 1926), is a former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and a socialist and republican politician. ... Paddy Devlin was a Northern Irish social democrat and Labour activist, a former Stormont MP, a founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive. ... John Hume - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Austin Currie (born 1939) is a former Irish politician. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... The Reverend Ian Richard Kyle Paisley (born April 6, 1926) is a politician and church leader in Northern Ireland. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Ira may have one of the following meanings. ...