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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]
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 |
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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