Frank Maguire (politician)

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Frank Maguire
MP
Member of Parliament
for Fermanagh and South Tyrone
In office
10 October 1974 – 5 March 1981
Preceded byHarry West
Succeeded byBobby Sands
Majority4,987 (51.8%)
Personal details
Born(1929-09-02)2 September 1929
Independent

Meredith Francis Maguire (2 September 1929 – 5 March 1981)

no confidence vote against the Callaghan government
, which brought it down by a single vote.

Early life

Born in

Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast for two years, within which he was the Irish Republican Army Commanding Officer. After his release, he opposed violence and became a pub landlord himself. He did remain associated with Sinn Féin.[2]

Political career

In the

Unionist voters. In the February 1974 UK general election, the Nationalist/Republican vote was split between a Unity and a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) candidate, leading to victory for the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) candidate. With the aim of fielding a single candidate, discussions among nationalist and republicans in the constituencies agreed Maguire as a joint candidate - in what has been termed[by whom?
] the spirit of the Unity movement.

Election to UK Parliament

Maguire was elected in the

1979 vote of no confidence in the government of James Callaghan to, as he wryly told a journalist, "abstain in person".[4]

At the resulting 1979 general election, Maguire was re-elected against candidates from the SDLP, the UUP, and the United Ulster Unionist Party.

Death

Maguire's death in 1981 (due to a heart attack)[5] produced a by-election which was won by Bobby Sands, an IRA hunger striker who died within a month of being elected.[6]

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0900582170
    .
  2. ^ David Beresford, Ten Men Dead
  3. ^ Journal of the House of Commons, Session 1974-75, p. 36
  4. ^ Mount, Ferdinand (7 April 1979). "The boycott and the bomb". The Spectator. 242 (7865): 4.
  5. ^ "Frank Maguire, Ulster M.P., Dies; Helped Defeat Callaghan in 1979 - The New York Times". The New York Times. 6 March 1981. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  6. ^ "1981: Bobby Sands dies in prison". 5 May 1981 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  • 'Who's Who of British MPs: Volume IV, 1945-1979' by Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees (Harvester, Brighton, 1979)
    ISBN 0-85527-335-6

External links
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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Oct 1974–1981 		Succeeded by
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