Tom Hartley | |
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65th Lord Mayor of Belfast | |
In office 1 June 2008 –1 June 2009 | |
Preceded by | Jim Rodgers |
Succeeded by | Naomi Long |
Member of Belfast City Council | |
In office 19 May 1993 –4 September 2013 [1] | |
Preceded by | Seán McKnight |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Constituency | Lower Falls |
Personal details | |
Born | Belfast,Northern Ireland |
Political party | Sinn Féin |
Website | www |
Tom Hartley (born 1945 or 1946) is a historian and Irish republican politician. Hartley grew up in the Falls Road area of Belfast and became a republican activist in the late 1960s. In 1970,he was imprisoned in the Crumlin Road gaol for ten months for riotous behaviour;he was again detained in 1978. During the 1981 Irish hunger strike,Hartley chaired the POW Committee. [2]
Hartley became active in Sinn Féin,serving as the General Secretary in the mid-1980s and the Chair in the early 1990s. [2] In 1993,he was elected to Belfast City Council for the Lower Falls and has held his seat at each subsequent election. [3] Hartley was one of three Sinn Féin candidates in Northern Ireland at the European election in 1994. Although he took only 3.8% of the votes cast and was not elected,he did receive more votes than the party's other candidates. [4] In 2008,Hartley became the second Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast. [2] In his spare time,he conducts tours of Belfast City Cemetery [5] and authored the 2006 book Written in Stone:The History of Belfast City Cemetery. [6]
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