Frank Millar Jr
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Frank Millar Jr | |
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| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast South | |
| In office 1984–1986 | |
| Preceded by | Edgar Graham |
| Succeeded by | Assembly abolished |
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| Born | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Political party | Ulster Unionist |
Frank Millar (born September 1954[1]) is a Northern Irish journalist and former unionist politician.
The son of Frank Millar, also a unionist politician, he was known as "Frank Millar Jr" during his early political career. He joined the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), and remained a member when his father left the organisation to sit as an independent Unionist.
Millar was the Press Officer of the UUP during the early 1980s.[2] He stood unsuccessfully for 1982 Northern Ireland Assembly in South Antrim.[3] However, he was elected to that body in 1984 in an uncontested by-election in Belfast South caused by the IRA murder of Edgar Graham.[4]
In 1983, Millar became the General Secretary of the UUP.[2] At the 1987 UK general election, he stood in Belfast West, receiving 18.7% of the votes cast.[5] The same year, he worked with UUP MP Harold McCusker and the DUP's Peter Robinson to produce a report on power sharing, following a positive report on the topic by the Ulster Political Research Group. The Task Force Report gave serious consideration to the idea, and called for a strategic unionist rethink in the wake of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. It was rejected by their respective leaders, Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux. Millar then resigned from his party post.[6]
Millar subsequently became a journalist and has long been the London Editor of the Irish Times. In 1998, he was named the Irish Print Journalist of the Year. In 2004, he wrote a biography of UUP leader David Trimble, entitled David Trimble: The Price of Peace.[7]
References
- ↑ Elliott, Sydney; Flackes, William (1999). Northern Ireland A Political Directory, 1968-1999. Blackstaff Press. ISBN 9780856406287.
- 1 2 Graham S. Walker, A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism And Pessimism
- ↑ South Antrim 1973-1982, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ South Belfast 1973-1984, Northern Ireland Elections
- ↑ "UK Parliamentary Election results: 1983-97: Northern Irish Boroughs". Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
- ↑ Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry, The Northern Ireland Conflict: Consociational Engagements
- ↑ "David Trimble by Frank Millar Archived 27 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine", Global-Investor Bookshop
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| Preceded by | MPA for South Belfast 1983–1986 |
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| Preceded by | General Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Party 1983–1987 |
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