Unity (Northern Ireland)
Unity (German: Einheit ) was the name of numerous electoral alliances of nationalist candidates in Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s. For the political direction of nationalism in (Northern) Ireland see also Republicanism .
Under Unity , a party also ran for city councils in 1973 in the constituencies of Fermanagh and Dungannon , which won six seats; in the 1977 election she could not repeat this success and only won two.
Unity achieved its first electoral success on April 17, 1969 in the Mid Ulster constituency , when left-wing student Bernadette Devlin McAliskey won a seat in the British House of Commons . McAliskey, the youngest MP since the House of Commons was founded at the age of 21 in 1970 , lost that seat in 1974.
Frank McManus , who also ran under Unity , won in the constituencies of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1970. Because of the split in the national votes between the Republican forces and the Social Democratic and Labor Party , he too lost the 1974 election.
The October 1974 election in the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone was won by Frank Maguire , who ran for the Independent Republican and held that seat until his death in 1981.
In 1978 Unity merged with the Nationalist Party to form the Irish Independence Party .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Local Government Elections 1973-1981: Fermanagh on www.ark.ac.uk on www.ark.ac.uk . Retrieved December 20, 2010
- ↑ The Local Government Elections 1973-1981: Dungannon on www.ark.ac.uk on www.ark.ac.uk . Retrieved December 20, 2010
- ↑ Information on belfasttelegraph.co.uk . Retrieved December 20, 2010
- ↑ 1969: Devlin is youngest-ever woman MP information on news.bbc.co.uk . Retrieved December 20, 2010