Tom Hartley (politician)
Tom Hartley | |
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| 53rd Lord Mayor of Belfast | |
| In office 2008–2009 | |
| Preceded by | Jim Rodgers |
| Succeeded by | Naomi Long |
| Councillor on Belfast City Council | |
| In office 1993–Incumbent | |
| Constituency | Lower Falls, Belfast West |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Belfast |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Website | www |
Tom Hartley (born 1945 or 1946) is a historian and Irish republican politician.
Hartley grew up in the Falls Road area of Belfast and became a republican activist in the late 1960s. In 1970, he was imprisoned in the Crumlin Road gaol for ten months for riotous behaviour; he was again imprisoned in 1978. During the 1981 Irish hunger strike, Hartley chaired the POW Committee.[1]
Hartley became active in Sinn Féin, serving as the General Secretary in the mid-1980s and as the Chair in the early 1990s.[1] In 1993, he was elected to Belfast City Council for the Lower Falls, and has held his seat at each subsequent election.[2]
Hartley was one of three Sinn Féin candidates in Northern Ireland at the European election in 1994. Although he took only 3.8% of the votes cast and was not elected, he did receive more votes than the party's other candidates.[3]
In 2008, Hartley became the second Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast.[1] In his spare time, he conducts tours of Belfast City Cemetery[4] and authored the 2006 book Written in Stone: The History of Belfast City Cemetery.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Sinn Féin's Tom Hartley elected Mayor of Belfast", An Phoblacht, 5 June 2008
- ^ Belfast City Council Elections 1993-2005, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ The 1994 European elections, Northern Ireland Elections
- ^ Laura Friel, "A winter's tale", An Phoblacht, 16 December 1999
- ^ Written in Stone, Belfast City Council
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