Eamon Melaugh

"Melaugh" redirects here. For the Northern Ireland association footballer and physicist, see Gavin Melaugh.

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)[1][2] 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.[7][8]

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]

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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