13 Facts About Edgar Graham

Edgar Graham was regarded as a rising star of both legal studies and Unionism and a possible future leader of the UUP.

Edgar Graham began working on a doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford, and was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland.

Edgar Graham was critical of both the British government's perceived indecisiveness and the UUP leadership under James Molyneaux.

Edgar Graham advocated devolution for Northern Ireland, rather than closer integration with the rest of the United Kingdom.

In February 1982, after Secretary of State Jim Prior unveiled his proposals for a new assembly, Edgar Graham noted that unionists would not accept the SDLP in a cabinet position and claimed that the SDLP could not be trusted with the responsibility of devolved government.

Edgar Graham was elected a member of the 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly for South Belfast and was appointed chair of the Assembly's finance committee.

Edgar Graham had gained attention for his strong arguments publicly supporting internment, the revocation of Special Category Status for republican prisoners, and the British government's network of informers.

Edgar Graham had been seen on BBC Northern Ireland criticising the Thatcher government for not taking a hard enough line against Republican prisoners and hunger strikers.

In honour and remembrance to Edgar Graham there is an inscription at the entrance of the debating hall at Stormont that reads:.

Edgar Graham vowed never to set foot in the union again.

Students' Union President Peter O'Neill, who was in his office in the building when news of the murder was given to him by a student within minutes, states that he heard no cheering and that news of the death of Mr Edgar Graham was not communicated through the union's Tannoy system.

Many knew Robert Bradford and Edgar Graham both murdered for defending the Union.

Journalist Ed Moloney, in his book, A Secret History of the IRA, contends that Edgar Graham's killing was ordered by a restive IRA unit, the Belfast Brigade and Ivor Bell, as part of a campaign that was a direct challenge to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams' call for a more "controlled and disciplined" campaign twinned with a growing parliamentary strategy.