Bernadette Devlin John Hume Gerry Adams (McAliskey) Born Cookstown, Co.Tyrone 1947 Born Derry 1937 Born 1948 Student at Queen's University, Went to St. Columb's College in Derry Republican family Belfast University of Maynooth BA Left school at 17 to be a barman Involved in civil rights movement Worked as teacher in St. Columb's IRA 1969 and marches organised by NICRA 1964-1965 involved in campaign for Interned 1971 1968-69 university to be located in Derry Involved in secret talks with Northern 1968 involved in left-wing student Involved in civil rights campaign Secretary (Whitelaw) 1972 group People's Democracy Elected to DHAC (Derry Housing Rearrested 1973 ran against Chichester-Clarke in 1969 Action Committee) 1968 Maze Prison election to Stormont Parliament in NI Elected to Stormont Parliament in 1969 Wrote 'Brownie Articles' for Ran in Westminster by-election 1969 1970 helped set up SDLP (Social Republican News as nationalist 'Unity' candidate Democratic and Labour Party) Suggested IRA needed political as Elected MP to Westminster age 21 Involved in negotiations on power- well as military campaign (youngest woman ever elected to sharing which led to Sunningdale Released 1977 House of Commons) Agreement 1974 Vice President SF 1978 Retained her seat in 1970 General Minister for Commerce in NI President SF 1983 Election to Westminster Excecutive set up by Sunningdale 'Armalite in one hand and the ballot Involved in 'Battle of the Bogside' But Executive collapsed May 1974 after box in the other' 1969 general strike organised by unionist SF contested election in NI and ROI Sentenced to 6 months prison for opponents on power-sharing executive Elected MP to Westminster 1983 for activities during B of B Constitutional Convention also failed to Belfast After 'Bloody Sunday' caused reach agreement SF entered Dail in ROI 1986 controversy by punching Reginald Replaced Gerry Fitt as leader of SDLP SF split on issue (most stayed with Maudling (Home Secretary) who 1979 Adams and SF) defended paratroopers who shot Elected to European Parliament 1979 1992 Adams lost MP seat to SDLP civilians on BS Elected MP to Westminster 1983 Involved in Hume-Adams talks in Lost seat in 1974 General Election Did not participated in Constitutional early 1990s Involved in setting up IRSP (Irish Conference 1980 or Northern Secretary Start of 'Peace Process' Republican Socialist Party) who split James Prior's idea of 'rolling devolution' IRA ceasefire in 1994 from Official IRA as opposed to purely internal settlement Good Friday Agreement 1998 Later broke with IRSP Participated in New Ireland Forum Critical of the 'Peace People' 1983-84 organised by Taoiseach Garret Ran in European Elections 1979 Fitzgerald Spoke in support of republican Began secret Hume-Adams talks 1988 prisoners involved in 'Blanket Protest' Involved in Peace Process which Won 38,000 votes culminated in the Good Friday Agreeent Involved in campaign supporting the 1988 prisoners during the 'Hunger Strikes' Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for 1980-1981 role in Peace Process (along with UUP Attacked by loyalist paramilitaries in leader, David Trimble) 1981 Both her and her husband seriously injured Activist on left wing issues Critical of SF role in peace process Terence O'Neill Brian Faulkner Ian Paisley Born Co. Antrim 1914 Born Co. Down 1921 Born Lurgan 1926 Educated in England Studied law at QUB and worked in 1948 became Baptist minister Served with Irish Guards (British family business 1951 set up Free Presbyterian Church Army) in WWII Elected to Stormont Parliament 1949 Felt O'Neill's reforms and gestures to Returned to NI and elected MP in Minister for Home Affairs 1959 nationalists were betrayal of unionism 1946 during IRA border campaign Began 'O'Neill Must Go' campaign Minister of Home Affairs 1955 Defeated by O'Neill for job of PM in after O'Neill met with Lemass Minister of Finance 1956 1963 During Civil Rights protests and Took over as PM from Lord Minister of Commerce in O'Neill's marches set up Ulster Protestant Brookeborough in 1963 govt. Volunteers to organise counter Encouraged multinational Worked to get foreign companies to demonstrations companies to set up in NI set up in NI Arrested in 1968 at counter Tried to modernise transport, Resigned in 1949 in protest at demonstration education and town planning O'Neill's reforms Set up Protestant Unionist Party in Invited ROI Taoiseach Lemass to NI Faulkner lost by 1 vote to Chichester- 1969 1965 and visited Lemass in Dubin Clarke for job as PM Almost beat O'Neill in 1969 election Began co-operation with ROI in Minister for Development in Elected to Stormont 1969 tourism and transport Chichester-Clarke's govt. Elected to Westminster Made conciliatory gestures to Became PM in 1971 when Chichester- 1971 set up Democratic Unionist Party nationalists (e.g. visiting catholic Clarke resigned (DUP) schools) Made some concessions to nationalists Opposed reforms being proposed by Opposed by hardline unionists like in Stormont O'Neill and Chichester-Clarke Paisley who organised 'O'Neill must Introduced internment I August 1971 Wanted end to direct rule but opposed go' campaign After Bloody Sunday Jan 1972 British to power-sharing with nationalists Didn't appoint catholics to govt. govt. decided to take control of Paisley involved in Ulster Workers' committees security in NI and unionist govt. Strike 1974 that brought down Accepted Lockwood Report for resigned and GB began 'Direct Rule' Sunningdale power-sharing Executive Coleraine over Derry BF opposed direct rule but later joined Attended Constitutional Convention Disappointed many catholics and talks on power-sharing with SDLP 1975-1976 and joined in demanding nationalists who expected reform and govts of ROI and NI restoration of devolved Stormont govt. Increasing violence in 1968 and BF signed Sunningdale Agreement Elected to European Parliament in 1969 and was to become head of the 1979 Resigned as PM in April 1969 Executive (Government) of NI Both DUP and UUP opposed Anglo- Resigned as MP soon after BF lost vote in Ulster Unionist Irish Agreement 1985 Moved to England Council and set up Unionist Party of Critical of 'Peace Process' and any Given title Lord O'Neill of the NI in Dec 1973 negotiations with SF or Dublin govt. Maine Jan 1974 was Chief Executive of the Rejected Downing Street Declaration Died in 1990 NI Executive (PM of power-sharing 1993 govt. of NI) Opposed Good Friday Agreement but But in Jan 1974 anti-Sunningdale later became involved in power-sharing unionists won 11 of 12 Westminster Assembly with SF seats in General Election Became First Minister (PM) of NI in May 1974 Ulster Worker's Council 2007 with SF's Martin McGuinness as began general strike to bring down Deputy First Minister Executive BF resigned after losing support of many unionists Retired from politics in 1977 Entered House of Lords as Lord Downpatrick Killed in hunting accident 1977 Conn and Patricia Margaret Thatcher James Molyneaux Seamus Heaney McLuskey Conn McLuskey (doctor Born 1925 Born in Co. Antrim Born Co. Derry 1939 from Dungannon) married Studied science at Oxford Served in RAF in WWII Attended St. Columb's Patricia McShane (social Trained as barrister Involved in Ulster college (catholic worker from Glasgow) Elected MP for Conservative Unionist Party and Loyal secondary school in In Dungannon the local Party Orders Derry) council was dominated by Education Secretary (Minister) Elected MP to Westminster Studied Latin, Irish and unionists who were 1970 for UUP English at QUB discriminating against Elected leader of Conservative Opposed Sunningdale Became teacher in Belfast catholics in the allocation of Party 1975 Agreement and power- Published collection of social housing Became PM in 1979 sharing Executive poems 'Death of a To counter this C and P Tough line against the IRA Molyneaux failed to win Naturalist' 1966 McLuskey set up the (who had killed Airey Neave- leadership contest when Moved to Wicklow 1972 Homeless Citizen's League her NI advisor) Faulkner resigned from Taught in Dublin in 1963 During hunger strikes refused to UUP in January 1974 Later went to teach in They argued that catholics give concessions to strikers Replaced Harry West as Harvard were entitled to civil rights Whitelaw persuaded her that leader of UUP in 1979 1980 involved in Field as citizens of the United power-sharing was the way UUP competing with DUP Day Theatre Company Kingdom and began to forward in NI for votes Received Nobel Peace document examples of NI Secretaries Humphrey Involved in Northern Prize in Literature 1995 'gerrymandering' and Atkins and James Prior Ireland Assembly in 1982 discrimination by unionist organised talks between parties Opposed Anglo-Irish councils but failed to reach agreement Agreement 1985 Set up Campaign for Social Want govt. of ROI to extradite In 1990s led UUP Justice (CSJ) in 1964 IRA suspects but relations delegation to all-party between governments strained talks on future of NI during hunger strikes Accepted the Downing Tensions in 1982 when Street Declaration with Taoiseach Charles Haughey some reservations condemned Falklands War Resigned as leader of UUP Thatcher alienated Taoiseach in 1995 Garret Fitzgerald when her Opposed Good Friday response to 3 suggestions of Agreement and power- New Ireland Forum in 1984 sharing were 'Out', 'Out', 'Out'. Made Lord Molyneaux of IRA bombed Grand Hotel in Killead in 1997 Brighton 1984 (killed 5 people but not their intended target, Thatcher) Talks with ROI government in Hillsborough led to Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 AIA set up Secretariat of British and Irish civil servants at Maryfield to work on on issues of common interest between NI and ROI For Thatcher main focus of AIA was security For Fitzgerald focus was more on political and cultural issues Resigned as PM in 1990 Critical of Good Friday Agreement 1998 for allowing release of prisoners