Eamonn Melaugh
Eamonn Melaugh is an Irish socialist, political campaigner and activist from Derry, Northern Ireland.
He helped found the Derry Housing Action Committee and the Derry Unemployment Action Committee which campaigned for jobs and housing for Derry Catholics.
As a result, Melaugh and the DHAC became involved with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association in the late 1960s. He later contributed evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
He is an active party member of the Workers' Party of Ireland and ran as a candidate for the Workers' Party of Ireland and its predecessor, Republican Clubs/Official Sinn Féin, in various elections in the Foyle constituency.Personal life
Melaugh married Mary McLaughlin in 1956; the couple had 11 children, 4 daughters and 7 sons. One son, Martin, curates the University of Ulster's .
