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Leader
  
Preceded by
  
Political party
  
Name
  
Desmond Boal

Education
  
Trinity College, Dublin

Preceded by
  
Office Created

Nationality
  
British

Spouse(s)
  
Annette Boal

Role
  
Politician

Succeeded by
  
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Died
  
April 22, 2015, Holywood, United Kingdom

Other political affiliations
  

Desmond Norman Orr Boal (1929 – 23 April 2015) was a unionist politician and barrister from Northern Ireland.

Boal had a legal career before he entered politics in 1960. He was the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Shankill constituency between 1960 and 1972. He was very critical of the leadership under Captain Terence O'Neill, then Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Boal opposed the manner, if not the substance, of O'Neill's attempts at improving relations with both the Irish government and the Roman Catholic/Irish nationalist minority in Northern Ireland, along with many backbenchers.

Discontented with James Chichester-Clark and Brian Faulkner who came to government after O'Neill's 1969 fall from power, Boal resigned from the UUP in 1971 and joined Ian Paisley in establishing the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in order to provide dissident unionist opinion with a viable political alternative. He worked as the first Chairman and one of the first public representatives of the DUP and continued to sit in Stormont during the years of 1971-1972. He later resumed his practice as a barrister.

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Desmond Boal Wikipedia


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