Martina Anderson
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| Martina Anderson MLA | |
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Director of Unionist Engagement
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| Succeeded by | Incumbent |
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| Constituency | Foyle |
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| Born | 1962 Bogside, Derry |
| Political party | Sinn Féin |
| Website | Martina Anderson MLA |
Martina Anderson, MLA (b. Bogside, Derry, 1962[1]) is a nationalist politician in Northern Ireland, and former member (volunteer) of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).
[edit] Life
Anderson was born in Derry into a large republican family. She has six sisters and three brothers, and one brother, Paul, is currently a Sinn Féin councillor. She was arrested aged 18 leaving a furniture store in Derry, and charged with possession of a firearm and causing an explosion. Anderson was released on bail after spending two months in Armagh Women's Prison, and fled across the border to Buncrana in County Donegal.[1]
She was arrested on 24 June 1985 at a flat in Glasgow with four other IRA members including Brighton bomber Patrick Magee. On 11 June 1986 all five were convicted of conspiring to cause explosions in England, although Magee was the only person convicted in relation to the Brighton bombing.[2][3] In 1989 she married fellow IRA prisoner Paul Kavanagh at Full Sutton Prison near York. In 1994 she was transferred from Durham Prison to Maghaberry Prison in Northern Ireland, and she was released on 10 November 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement and has since renounced violence.[1][4][5]
In 2007 Anderson was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Sinn Féin member for Foyle, along with Raymond McCartney.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Beyond the Wire. Ireland's Own (1996). Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
- ^ Taylor, Peter (2001). Brits. Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 157-159. ISBN 0-7475-5806-X.
- ^ Gareth Parry (10 June 1986). Patrick Magee convicted of IRA terrorist attack. The Guardian. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
- ^ Paul Hutcheon (12 March 2006). Fury over IRA bomber's Holyrood visit. The Sunday Herald. Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
- ^ The beauty queen bomber goes free. Evening Standard (10 November 1998). Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
- ^ Northern Ireland election. BBC (9 March 2007). Retrieved on March 21, 2007.
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