Paddy Devlin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paddy Devlin

Irish Stormont MP

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1925

Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1999

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Patrick Joseph "Paddy" Devlin (8 March 1925 – 15 August 1999) was an Irish social democrat, labour and civil rights activist and writer.
He was a founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), a former Stormont MP, and a member of the 1974 Power Sharing Executive. Described as a "relentless campaigner against sectarianism", Devlin had once been a member of the IRA but later renounced physical force republicanism to work at transcending sectarian differences through democratic, socialist and nationalist political means. During the late 1960s he entered local politics in the Belfast City Council and went on to help found the SDLP in 1970 with John Hume, Gerry Fitt, Austin Currie and others.