David Overend
David Anthony Overend (born 1932 or 1933) is an artist and former Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP) and Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) politician in Northern Ireland.
Born in Birstall, West Yorkshire, Overend painted from his youth, before meeting and marrying a woman from Belfast, moving to the city and continuing his artwork.[1]
He soon became a leading activist in the Northern Ireland Labour Party.[2] He stood for the NILP in Belfast Shankill at the 1965 Northern Ireland general election, taking 32.6% of the vote and again in 1969, when he dropped to 15.4%.[3] He also stood in the 1966 UK general election in Belfast North, taking 42.6% of the vote, the party's second-best result of the election.[4] By 1969, he was the party's official spokesperson for the Shankill Road area, and appealed on behalf of the NILP for calm during the 1969 Northern Ireland riots, issuing a statement that condemned "any acts of physical violence from any quarter".[5]
In 1977, Overend resigned from the NILP along with colleague Jim McDonald, and joined Hugh Smyth's new Independent Unionist Group.[6] He and Smyth shared a vision of creating a political programme for working-class loyalist communities,[7] and Overend wrote many of the new party's policy documents, incorporating many labour-oriented ideas.[6][8][9] The group became the Progressive Unionist Party, and Overend served as its first secretary, while continuing to paint in his spare time.[10]
Overend stood for Belfast City Council for his new party at the 1981 local elections, but was not elected.[11] Overend remained secretary of the PUP until at least 1984, when he met with Northern Ireland Office officials on behalf of the Loyalist Prisoners' Rights Committee.[12]
References
- ↑ "David Overend's Biography". White Image. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ↑ Parr, Connal (2017). Inventing the Myth: Political Passions and the Ulster Protestant Imagination. Oxford University Press. p. 87. ISBN 978-0198791591. Search this book on
- ↑ "Northern Ireland Parliamentary Election Results: Boroughs: Belfast". election.demon.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 July 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ↑ "http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/dnb.htm North Belfast 1950–1970", Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ Aaron Edwards, A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, p. 167
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Aaron Edwards, A history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, p. 219
- ↑ Ed Moloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland, p. 396
- ↑ Aaron Edwards and Stephen Bloomer, "Democratising the Peace in Northern Ireland: Progressive Loyalists and the Politics of Conflict Transformation", Conflict Transformation Papers, vol. 12, p. 13
- ↑ Edwards, Aaron (16 May 2016). "Labouring to make an impression on politics". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ↑ "Getting out the vote". Irish Times. 31 July 1985.
|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ↑ "http://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/73-81lgbelfast.htm The Local Government Elections 1973–1981: Belfast", Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ Cusack, Jim (15 September 1984). "Rights body to hear plea on hunger strike". Irish Times.
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