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Austin Currie (born 11 October 1939) is a former Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 politician, having been elected to the parliaments of both Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
 and the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
.

Austin Currie was born in County Tyrone
County Tyrone

County Tyrone is the second largest of the nine Irish county of Ulster and the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland. It has an area of 3,155 square kilometres ....
, Northern Ireland into a large Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 family. He was educated in Dungannon
Dungannon

Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. It is the third-largest town in the county and a population of 11,139 people was recorded in the United Kingdom Census 2001....
 and at the Queen's University of Belfast
Queen's University of Belfast

Queen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university's official title, per its charter, is "The Queen's University of Belfast"....
. Between 1964 and 1972 he was elected as Stormont
Parliament of Northern Ireland

The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the Home Rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which existed from 22 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended....
 MP
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
 for East Tyrone
East Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

East Tyrone was a constituency of the Northern Ireland Parliament....
. He became an active member in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was an organisation which campaigned for civil rights for the Roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
. In 1970 he was a founder of the group that established the Social Democratic and Labour Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party

The Social Democratic and Labour Party is one of the two major Irish nationalism parties in Northern Ireland. During the The Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA cease-fire in 1994, it has lost ground to its rival Sinn F?in, which, in 2001, became the more p...
 (SDLP).






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Austin Currie (born 11 October 1939) is a former Irish
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
 politician, having been elected to the parliaments of both Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

conventional_long_name = Northern Ireland|native_name= Tuaisceart ?ireannNorlin Airlann|motto =|image_map = Europe location N-IRL2.png...
 and the Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland

Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
.

Austin Currie was born in County Tyrone
County Tyrone

County Tyrone is the second largest of the nine Irish county of Ulster and the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland. It has an area of 3,155 square kilometres ....
, Northern Ireland into a large Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 family. He was educated in Dungannon
Dungannon

Dungannon is a town in County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. It is the third-largest town in the county and a population of 11,139 people was recorded in the United Kingdom Census 2001....
 and at the Queen's University of Belfast
Queen's University of Belfast

Queen's University Belfast is a university in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The university's official title, per its charter, is "The Queen's University of Belfast"....
. Between 1964 and 1972 he was elected as Stormont
Parliament of Northern Ireland

The Parliament of Northern Ireland was the Home Rule legislature of Northern Ireland, created under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which existed from 22 June 1921 to 30 March 1972, when it was suspended....
 MP
Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
 for East Tyrone
East Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

East Tyrone was a constituency of the Northern Ireland Parliament....
. He became an active member in the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was an organisation which campaigned for civil rights for the Roman Catholic minority in Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
. In 1970 he was a founder of the group that established the Social Democratic and Labour Party
Social Democratic and Labour Party

The Social Democratic and Labour Party is one of the two major Irish nationalism parties in Northern Ireland. During the The Troubles, the SDLP was consistently the most popular nationalist party in Northern Ireland, but since the Provisional IRA cease-fire in 1994, it has lost ground to its rival Sinn F?in, which, in 2001, became the more p...
 (SDLP). From 1973 to 1974 Currie was a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. In 1974 he became chief whip of the SDLP. That same year he became Minister for Housing, Local Government and Planning in the Northern Ireland Executive
Northern Ireland Executive

The Northern Ireland Executive is the Executive arm of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the devolution legislature for Northern Ireland. It is answerable to the Assembly and was established according to the terms of the Northern Ireland Act 1998....
.

He contested the 1979 UK General Election and 1986 by-election in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone
Fermanagh and South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)

Fermanagh and South Tyrone is a Parliamentary constituency in the British House of Commons....
 seat. He also was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly
Northern Ireland Assembly, 1982

The Northern Ireland Assembly of 1982–1986 represented an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to restore devolution to Northern Ireland which had been suspended 10 years previously....
 in 1982 for the same seat.

By 1989, Currie had decided to move south, and in the general election
Irish general election, 1989

The Irish general election of 1989 was held on Friday, 15 June 1989, three weeks after the Dissolution of Parliament of the D?il on 25 May. The newly elected 166 members of the 26th D?il assembled at Leinster House on 29 June....
 of that year he was elected as a Fine Gael
Fine Gael

Fine Gael ? The United Ireland Party, shortened to Fine Gael is the second largest political party in the Republic of Ireland. It claims a membership of 30,000, and is the largest parliamentary opposition party in the Oireachtas, the Irish parliament....
 Teachta Dála
Teachta Dála

A Teachta D?la is a member of D?il ?ireann, the lower chamber of the Oireachtas of Republic of Ireland. The official translation of Teachta D?la is Deputy to the D?il, a more literal translation is...
 for a Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
 constituency.

In 1990 he was the Fine Gael candidate in the presidential election
Irish presidential election, 1990

The Irish presidential election of 1990 was held on 7 November 1990. It was the tenth presidential election to be held in Ireland, and only the fifth to be contested by more than one candidate....
. However, after procrastination on Fine Gael's part in choosing a candidate he came third after Mary Robinson
Mary Robinson

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson served as the President_of_Ireland#List_of_Presidents_of_Ireland, and first female, President of Ireland, serving from 1990 to 1997, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, from 1997 to 2002....
 and Brian Lenihan. In the Rainbow Coalition
Rainbow Coalition

Rainbow Coalition may refer to any of the following groups:* National Rainbow Coalition, the ruling Kenyan political party* The Government of the 27th D?il#24th Government of Ireland, formed after the previous coalition fell apart...
 between 1994 and 1997 he became Minister of State
Minister of State (Ireland)

A Minister of State , in Republic of Ireland, is a 'junior minister', and is of non-Cabinet rank, attached to one or more Department of State of the Government of Ireland....
 at the Departments of Education, Justice and Health. In the 2002 general election
Irish general election, 2002

The Irish general election of 2002 was held on Friday 17 May 2002 just over three weeks after the Dissolution of parliament of the Members of the 28th D?il on Thursday 25 April by President of Ireland Mary McAleese, at the request of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern....
 he lost his seat in Dáil Éireann
Dáil Éireann

is the principal chamber of the Oireachtas . It is directly elected at least once in every five years under the system of proportional representation by means of the Single Transferable Vote ....
 when he failed to be elected in Dublin Mid West
Dublin Mid West (Dáil Éireann constituency)

Dublin Mid West is a Parliamentary constituencies in the Republic of Ireland in County Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is represented in D?il ?ireann, the lower house of the Irish parliament or Oireachtas....
. He immediately announced his retirement from politics.

Reading

  • Austin Currie, 'All Hell Will Break Loose,' O'Brien Press, Dublin, 2004.