Eamonn Melaugh Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Irish Civil Rights . Irish Anti-Partition League . 8 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180416114210/http://www.ia-pl.org/civil_rights/index.htm . 16 April 2018 . dead.
2. Book: Hastings, Max. Max Hastings

   . Barricades in Belfast: the fight for civil rights in Northern Ireland. Max Hastings. 47. 1970. Taplinger Publishing . 978-0-8008-0665-1.

3. Book: Stout, Angela Kathryn. Social problems, law, and society. Richard Alan Dello Buono. William J. Chambliss. 352. 2004. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-7425-4207-5.
4. Book: McMahon, Seán. A short history of Ireland. 200. 1997. Dufour Editions. 978-0-8023-1319-5. registration.
5. http://report.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org/volume05/chapter086/ Bloody Sunday Report (Volume 5, Chapter 86)
6. https://www.youtube.com/user/irelandwp#p/u/2/zstn9pGV44c Presentation to Eamonn Melaugh, Annual Northern Ireland regional conference of the Workers Party, Belfast (4 October 2008)
7. http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/bfoy.htm Foyle Elections 1983-1992
8. http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/cldy.htm Foyle Elections 1973-83
9. http://www.eaawsecohumanitarians.org/story.htm Eamonn Melaugh
10. Web site: 'If the state had treated people equally, none of this would have happened'. 14 August 2019. Spiked. 7 December 2020.