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Eamon Melaugh

Eamon Melaugh was an Irish socialist, political campaigner and activist from Derry, Northern Ireland.

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Eamon Melaugh (4 July 1933 – 8 December 2025) was an Irish socialist, political campaigner and activist from Derry, Northern Ireland.

Life and career

Melaugh helped found the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC)12 and the Derry Unemployment Action Committee (DUAC)3 which campaigned for jobs and housing for Derry Catholics.

Melaugh and the DHAC became involved with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in the late 1960s.4 He later contributed evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.5 He was an active member of the Workers' Party,6 and stood as a candidate for it and its predecessor, Republican Clubs/Official Sinn Féin, in the Foyle constituency.78

In 1956, he married Mary McLaughlin; the couple had 11 children, four daughters and seven sons.9 One of his sons, Martin Melaugh, is an academic who curates the University of Ulster's CAIN, a collection of information and source material on "the Troubles" and politics in Northern Ireland.10 A nephew is writer, broadcaster, and comedian Andrew Doyle.11 Melaugh died on 8 December 2025, at the age of 92.12

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References

  1. "Irish Civil Rights". Irish Anti-Partition League. Archived from the original on 16 April 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. Hastings, Max (1970). Barricades in Belfast: the fight for civil rights in Northern Ireland. Taplinger Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-8008-0665-1.
  3. Stout, Angela Kathryn; Richard Alan Dello Buono; William J. Chambliss (2004). Social problems, law, and society. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 352. ISBN 978-0-7425-4207-5.
  4. McMahon, Seán (1997). A short history of Ireland. Dufour Editions. p. 200. ISBN 978-0-8023-1319-5.
  5. Bloody Sunday Report (Volume 5, Chapter 86) Archived 3 November 2010 at the UK Government Web Archive Volume 5, Chapter 86.
  6. Presentation to Eamon Melaugh, Annual Northern Ireland regional conference of the Workers Party, Belfast (4 October 2008), youtube.com.
  7. Foyle Elections 1983-1992, ark.ac.uk; accessed 30 January 2018.
  8. Foyle Elections 1973-83 Eamon Melaugh Electoral history], electionsireland.org; accessed 30 January 2018.
  9. Eamon Melaugh Archived 22 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine, eaawsecohumanitarians.org; accessed 30 January 2018.
  10. List of Contributors to the CAIN Site: Martin Melaugh, cain.ulst.ac.uk. Accessed 8 December 2025.
  11. "If the state had treated people equally, none of this would have happened". Spiked. 14 August 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  12. Veteran civil rights campaigner Eamon Melaugh dies, bbc.co.uk. Accessed 8 December 2025.
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