11 Facts About Denis Ireland

Denis Liddell Ireland was an Irish essayist and political activist.

Denis Ireland was the first member of the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament, to be resident in Northern Ireland.

Denis Ireland was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, the Perse School in Cambridge, and at Queen's University Belfast.

The opportunity this accorded him for travel in Europe and in North America provoked a writing talent that Denis Ireland began to apply in earnest from 1930 working freelance and as a writer for the BBC.

Evidently there was not the material to suggest that Denis Ireland was complicit in, or less shocked than other club members by, the activities of Graham and his comrades.

In June 1947, it was still as "President of the Ulster Union Club" that "Captain Denis Ireland" was introduced to an Anti-Partition meeting in New York by the city's Mayo-born Mayor William O'Dwyer.

Denis Ireland organised a 150th-year commemoration of the United Irish Rebellion for Belfast city centre.

In 1948, along with trade unionists Harold Binks, Victor Halley and Jack MacGougan, Denis Ireland was member of the Belfast 1798 Commemoration Commiitee.

Notwithstanding their redistributive logic, Denis Ireland was clear that these ideas did not define him as a socialist, and that they did not bring him into line with what many in 1945 saw as the nearest prospect of political reform and progress in Northern Denis Ireland, the new Labour-majority in Westminster.

Denis Ireland was not the first Northern Ireland Protestant to serve in the Oireachtas but he was the first member to be a Northern-Ireland resident.

From his home in "tree-embowered" South Belfast, Denis Ireland lived to witness the onset of the Northern Denis Ireland Troubles.