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John Robb (surgeon)

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Nationality
  
Irish

Role
  
Surgeon

Name
  
John Robb


Religion
  
Protestant

Profession
  
Surgeon

Constituency
  
Nominated by the Taoiseach

Books
  
New Ireland: Sellout Or Opportunity? - 30 Years on

Political party
  
Independent politician

John D.A. Robb is a surgeon from Ballymoney in County Antrim, Northern Ireland who served for seven years a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the legislature of the Republic of Ireland).

Career

A liberal Protestant in the all-Ireland tradition, Robb was educated at Rockport School, Holywood, Co Down, and at Merchiston Castle School Edinburgh. Later, he became a Wolfe Tone Society contact in the 1960s, and in the early 1980s he founded the New Ireland Group, which sought to promote a new vision of Ireland which would radically differ both from the Unionist viewpoint and from the Catholic and Gaelic vision which was then perceived to be on offer as an alternative to Unionism.

In 1982, he was nominated by the Taoiseach Charles Haughey to be a member of the 16th Seanad. He was nominated to the 17th Seanad by the Fine Gael Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, and by Haughey to the 18th Seanad. After the 1989 general election he was not nominated to the 19th Seanad.

References

John Robb (surgeon) Wikipedia