Sean Farren
Sean Farren | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Antrim North | |
| In office 25 June 1998 – 7 March 2007 | |
| Preceded by | New Creation |
| Succeeded by | Declan O'Loan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 September 1939 Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
| Political party | SDLP |
| Alma mater | University College Dublin University of Essex University of Ulster |
Sean Nial Farren (born 6 September 1939) is an Irish politician and academic in Northern Ireland.
Farren studied at the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin (BA), University of Essex (MA) and the University of Ulster (PhD). He worked as a teacher in Dublin, Switzerland and Sierra Leone before becoming a lecturer at the University of Ulster.
Farren contested the Westminster seat of North Antrim as a member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) at the 1979 UK general election, and stood at each subsequent general election until 2004.
In 1982, Farren was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in North Antrim. In line with SDLP policy, he instead sat on the New Ireland Forum (1993-4).
Farren was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996, again for North Antrim, and held this seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 and 2003, before standing down at the 2007 election.
Since 2008 he has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Education at the Ulster University. He has also been uinvolved in a number of projects aimed at strengthening democratic institutions in the Middle East, North Africa, West and East Africa.
He is currently a member of the Governing Authority of Dublin City University, a Trustee of Concern Worldwide (UK), a member of the Standing Committee of the Development Studies Association of Ireland (DSAI) and a committee member of the Sierra Leone Ireland Partnership (SLIP).
He is married to Patricia Clarke. They have four children. He and Patricia live in Portstewart, County Derry.
He has authored, co-authored or edited four books: The Politics of Irish Education (1995),SDLP - the Struggle for Agreement in Northern Ireland (2010), with Robert Mulvihill, Paths to a Settlement in Northern Ireland (2000), and with Denis Haughey, John Hume: Irish Peacemaker (2015). He has also written many book chapters, peer reviewed and other articles.
References
- ^ Title changed to Minister for Employment and Learning during tenure.
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Academics of Ulster University
- Alumni of University College Dublin
- Alumni of the University of Essex
- Alumni of Ulster University
- Alumni of the National University of Ireland
- Northern Ireland MPAs 1982–86
- Members of the Northern Ireland Forum
- Northern Ireland MLAs 1998–2003
- Northern Ireland MLAs 2003–07
- Northern Ireland Government ministers
- People from Portstewart
- Social Democratic and Labour Party MLAs
- Ministers of Finance and Personnel of Northern Ireland