Eamonn Melaugh

Eamonn Melaugh (born 4 July 1933) is an Irish socialist, political campaigner and activist from Derry, Northern Ireland.

He helped found the Derry 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 the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in the late 1960s.[4] He later contributed evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.[5]

He is an active member of the Workers' Party,[6] and has stood as a candidate for it and its predecessor, Republican Clubs/Official Sinn Féin, in the Foyle constituency.[7][8]

Personal life

Melaugh married Mary McLaughlin in 1956; the couple had 11 children, 4 daughters and 7 sons.[9] One son, Martin, curates the University of Ulster's CAIN website. His nephew is the comedian and TV presenter Andrew Doyle.[10]

References
  1. "Irish Civil Rights". Irish Anti-Partition League. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved 8 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 the UK Government Web Archive Volume 5, Chapter 86.
  6. Presentation to Eamonn 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 Eamonn Melaugh Electoral history], electionsireland.org; accessed 30 January 2018.
  9. Eamonn Melaugh Archived 22 January 2011 at the Wayback 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. Retrieved 7 December 2020.


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