Owen Carron

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Owen Gerard Carron (born February 9, 1953 in Enniskillen , Northern Ireland ) is a former active Republican of Northern Ireland and an elected member for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1981 to 1983 when he was successful for the anti-H- Block ran.

Early life

Owen studied in Manchester and taught history and religion in a Catholic school in Armagh . He gave up this position because it was too far for him to get to his 75-year-old father's farm. He was a member of a local H-Block Committee and organized successful meetings, marches and demonstrations during the 1980 hunger strike.

Campaign manager

Carron was the campaign manager for Bobby Sands in April 1981, who won that election and died 26 days after of his hunger strike . Because of the British change in electoral law, the Representation of the People Act 1981 , it was no longer possible for prisoners who had been sentenced to more than a year in prison to run for election. Therefore, Carron ran for the so-called Anti H-Block / Proxy Political Prisoner in the by-election after he was chosen as a candidate for the national forces.

Election of deputies

Carron was elected in the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone on August 20, 1981 by an even larger majority than Bobby Sands , and was then the youngest member of the UK House of Representatives. Like most other Irish Republican MPs, however, he did not take his seat in the House of Commons. During this time he was noticed by the Irish Republicans, as he was always dressed in a suit and tie.

Carron made no secret of the fact that he sympathized with the Sinn Féin and joined it in 1982. In October 1982 he was nominated as the Sinn Féin candidate for the Parliament of Northern Ireland and in 1983 Carron again ran for the lower house election as the official Sinn Féin candidate, but was defeated by Ken Maginnis of the Ulster Unionist Party . The election defeat was caused by the behavior of the Social Democratic and Labor Party , which split the national votes by nominating its own candidate.

Arrests and Later Life

Carron and Danny Morrison were arrested in the United States on January 21, 1982 for illegally entering from Canada . He was deported, and later both men were convicted of providing false information and statements to American officials.

In 1986 a rifle, an AK-47 , was found in his vehicle. He was imprisoned but released for election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1986. He lost the election and then went to County Leitrim in the Republic of Ireland . Following the intervention of Great Britain in the Republic of Ireland , he was arrested and imprisoned for two and a half years for the Irish Court of Justice to consider the possession of automatic weapons a political offense.

After his release, he worked as a general contractor before taking up teaching in 1995 and becoming principal of the National School in Ballinmore .

In 2002 Carron was named on a list of members of the Sinn Féin to whom the British government granted amnesty .

In 2007 he was the campaign director of the Sinn Féin candidate Martin Kenny in the Roscommon-South Leitrim constituency during the election to the Dáil Éireann (Parliament of the Republic of Ireland).

Others

Carron is the nephew of former Nationalist Party politician John Carron .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ten Men Dead by David Beresford on cain.ulst.ac.uk . Retrieved December 26, 2010
  2. ^ 2 Irish Activists Convicted by Jury . New York Times . November 9, 1983. Retrieved March 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ Andy McSmith: Bill offers amnesty to IRA fugitives . The Independent . November 10, 2005. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 3, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.independent.co.uk
  4. ^ Owen Carron: It's time for me to come home ". Impartial Reporter. August 17, 2000
  5. ^ Henry McDonald: Fury as IRA fugitives win amnesty . The Observer . January 20, 2002. Retrieved March 3, 2007.
  6. ^ Dáil general election profile: Martin Kenny - Roscommon / South Leitrim on Anphoblacht on April 5, 2007 . Retrieved December 27, 2010
  7. ^ Liam Clarke: Broadening the Battlefield. Gill & McMillan, 1987, ISBN 0-7171-1476-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Carron, Owen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carron, Owen Gerard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish politician, founding member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Enniskillen , Northern Ireland