Jack Macgougan
Jack Macgougan (21 August 1913 – 12 December 1998) was a
Born in
In 1934, along with Victor Halley, Jack White and other northern trade unionists and socialists, he attended the convention in Athlone that established the broad "anti-imperialist" Republican Congress, and initiative of a left split from the Irish Republican Army.[2] From 1936 he was active, alongside Betty Sinclair, Winifred Carney, Halley and others, in organising relief aid for the Spanish Republic in civil war with Franco.[3][4]
In the 1938 Northern Ireland general election, he stood for the NILP in Belfast Oldpark,[5] taking second place, with 40.8% of the vote.[6] In 1945, he was appointed Irish Regional Organiser of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers (NUTGW).[7]
Macgougan was Chair of the NILP in 1945–1946,
In 1948, along with Halley and the writer and Anti-Partition League speaker Denis Ireland, MacGougan Ireland was member of the Belfast 1798 Commemoration Commiitee. After being denied access to the city centre, they rallied 30,000 in Corrigan Park in nationalist west Belfast,[3] where MacGougan reminded the crowd that the United Irish leader "Wolfe Tone was an advocate of the new social forces that arose in all parts of the world" and that when they paid tribute to the United Irishmen they were to remember that "they had the closest fraternal links with the democratic forces in other countries".[1]
MacGougan retired to Milton Keynes in England where he died on 14 December 1998.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-909556-06-5.
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- ^ a b Courtney (2013), 331-332.
- ^ Tallon, Ruth (2016). Winnifred and George (PDF). Belfast: Failte Feirste Thiar. p. 10.
- ^ "Jack Macgougan", The Irish Times, 3 May 1999
- ^ a b "Northern Ireland Parliamentary Elections Results: Boroughs: Belfast". Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2010.
- ^ a b c Saothar, vol.16-20, pp.80-81
- ^ Andrew Finlay, Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociationism, Identity and the Price of Peace, p.93
- ^ "Discussion between Richard (Dick) Montague and Ciaran Crossey, Arguments for a Workers Republic
- ^ South Down 1950-1970