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Jack Macgougan

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was an advocate of the new social forces that arose in all parts of the world" and that when they paid tribute to the United Irishmen they were to remember that "they had the closest fraternal links with the democratic forces in other countries".
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Commemoration Commiitee. After being denied access to the city centre, they rallied 30,000 in Corrigan Park in nationalist west Belfast, where MacGougan reminded the crowd that the
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family, Macgougan became an active trade unionist at an early age. In 1935 he was elected Secretary of the
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Macgougan was Chair of the NILP in 1945–1946, but became unhappy with its increasingly
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and other northern trade unionists and socialists, he attended the convention in
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Dissenting Voices: Rediscovering the Irish Progressive Presbyterian Tradition
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In 1948, along with Halley and the writer and Anti-Partition League speaker
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Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociationism, Identity and the Price of Peace
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decided not to oppose him, but priests denounced him as a communist) and
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General secretaries of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
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The Republican Congress Revisited (with a foreword by Nora Harkin)
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in Northern Ireland. In 1949, he was elected for the party to
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Discussion between Richard (Dick) Montague and Ciaran Crossey
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Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress
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Index

trade unionist
socialist
Ireland
Belfast
Protestant
Socialist Party of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Labour Party
Independent Labour Party
Victor Halley
Jack White
Athlone
Republican Congress
Irish Republican Army
Betty Sinclair
Winifred Carney
Spanish Republic
civil war
Franco
1938 Northern Ireland general election
Belfast Oldpark
National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers
unionist
Harry Diamond
Irish Labour Party
Belfast City Council
South Down
1950 general election
Anti-Partition League
Belfast Falls
1953 Northern Ireland general election

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