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. Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... 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. ... 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. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The Sunningdale Agreement on December 9, 1973, was an attempt to end the Northern Ireland troubles by forcing unionists to share power with nationalists. ...

Devlin was born in the Pound Loney in the Lower Falls in West Belfast on 8 March 1925 and lived in the city for almost all his life. The Falls Road is the main road through West Belfast; from Divis Street in the city centre to Andersonstown in the suburbs. ... West Belfast is a Parliamentary Constituency in the House of Commons and also an Assembly constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Devlin's mother was a leading activist in Joe Devlin's (no relation) Nationalist Party machine in the Falls and Devlin grew up in a highly political hoiusehold. However his early activism was confined to Fianna Éireann and then the IRA and as a result he was interned in Crumlin Road Goal juring the Second World War. On release he left the republican movement. National Party or Nationalist Party can refer to several political parties, including: Australia - National Party of Australia, Nationalist Party of Australia Bangladesh - Bangladesh National Party, National Party, National Party (Manju), National Party (Naziur) Bohemia - National Party Britain - British National Party, Cornish Nationalist Party, Constitutional Movement Canada - National Party of Canada... Fianna Éireann (Irish: Warriors of Ireland, named after the mythological Fianna) is an Irish republican youth movement. ... Ira may have one of the following meanings. ... The word internment is generally used to refer to the imprisonment or confinement of people, generally in prison camps or prisons, without due process of law and a trial. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

After the war, and in search of work, he spent some time in Portsmouth working as a scaffolder and in Coventry working in the car industry. In Coventry he became interested in Labour and trade union politics and briefly joined the British Labour Party. This article is about the English city of Portsmouth. ... Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. ... The Labour Party is a centre-left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdoms three main political parties. ...

Returning to Belfast in 1948 he helped establish the Irish Labour Party there after the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) split on the issue of partition and later he beat Gerry Fitt to win a seat on the city council. Later Catholic Action claimed the Irish Labour Party was infested with Communists and ensured the party were effectively wiped out and Devlin lost his seat. Belfast (Béal Feirste in Irish) is the largest city in and capital of both Northern Ireland and Ulster, and the second largest city on the island of Ireland. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Logo of the Irish Labour Party The Irish Labour Party (Irish: Páirti an Lucht Oibre) is the third largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. ... The Northern Ireland Labour Party was a political party which operated from 1924 until the 1980s. ... In general, a partition is a splitting into parts. ... 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. ... This article is about communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, and as a popular movement. ...

In the mid 1960s Devlin joined the revived NILP and beat Harry Diamond for the Falls seat in Stormont. Devlin then went on, with Fitt, John Hume, Austin Currie and others to found the SDLP in 1970. He was later involved, at the request of William Whitelaw, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in ensuring safe passage for Gerry Adams to talks in 1973. The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... Harry Diamond was a socialist, Irish nationalist and was the Irish Labour Party MP for Falls sitting in the Northern Ireland Parliament, later he was a leading figure in, and then leader of, the Republican Labour Party. ... John Hume - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Austin Currie (born 1939) is a former Irish politician. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... William Stephen Ian Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, KT, CH, MC, PC, DL (June 28, 1918 - July 1, 1999), commonly known as Willie Whitelaw, was a British Conservative politician. ... The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is the British cabinet minister who has responsibility for the government of Northern Ireland. ... Gerry Adams Gerry Adams (Irish name Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh; born October 6, 1948) is an Irish politician, Member of Parliament for West Belfast, and president of Sinn Féin. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Devlin, like Fitt, was a Labour man first and foremost and deeply distrusted John Hume and others in the SDLP who he regarded as nationalists and not social democrats. Hume and others saw him as too willing to compromise with the British and too forgiving of police and army excesses.

Devlin saw the SDLP as a body to unite Catholic and Protestant workers and so transcend the traditional sectarian divisions of the North through socialist politics. Others saw him as pig headed and arrogant. In his autobiography he accused Hume of seeking to make the SDLP just another nationalist party and while not regretting his expulsion from the SDLP in 1977 called the dispute than led him to resign "a most unworthy squabble" and admits "I was not the innocent party". Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... Sectarianism is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination, it also usually involves a rejection of those not a member of ones sect. ... Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

Subsequently he attempted establish a broad based Labour formation in Northern Ireland, standing for the European Parliament in 1979 but polling just 6,122 first preferences (1.1% of those cast) and so losing his deposit. The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ... STV can stand for the following: Scottish Television Sapporo Television Broadcasting - a TV station and radio station in Hokkaido, Japan Single Track Vehicle Single Transferable Vote This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In 1987 he, together with remnants of the NILP and others, established Labour 87 as another attempt at building a Labour Party in the North but it too met with little or no success. In 1985 he had lost his place on Belfast City council. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Outside of party politics, Devlin spent his later years as Belfast organiser of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and wrote an acclaimed study (his MSc. thesis) of the 1935 Outdoor Relief Riots in Belfast, published as Yes We Have No Bananas in 1985. The Irish Transport and General Workers Union was founded by James Larkin as a general trade union (in line with the policy of the Industrial Workers of the World). ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... Thesis - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...