May Blood, Baroness Blood

May Blood, Baroness Blood MBE ( born May 26, 1938 in Belfast) is a British politician of the Labour Party.

Life and career

May Blood, daughter of William Blood and Mary McKeen, visited the Donegall Road Primary School and Secondary School Linfield.

From 1952 to 1990 she worked in the linen-weaving Mill Company Ltd, where she was an active member of the union and shop steward soon. She was involved in the founding of the Women's Committee in the union and fought for the equality of women in the workplace. Later she worked as a manager of Cairn Martin Wood Products from 1991 to 1994. Since 1994 she is an Information Officer of the Greater Shankill Partnership Co. Ltd.. and a founding member of the Northern Ireland Women 's Coalition.

Blood was founded in 1999 as the first woman from Northern Ireland to the life peer as Baroness Blood, of Blackwater Town in the County of Armagh, was appointed. With an honorary doctorate, she was honored by the University of Ulster, 2000 by the Queen's University of Belfast, and in 2001 by the Open University in 1998.

In 2007, she published her autobiography Watch my Lips, I'm Speaking.

Swell

• Blood, May: Watch My Lips, I'm Speaking. Autobiography. Gill & Macmillan Ltd ( September 2007)
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• Life peer
• Member of the House of Lords
• Unionists ( United Kingdom)
• Politicians (Northern Ireland)
• Politicians ( 20th century)
• Politicians ( 21st century)
• Labour Member
• Member of the Order of the British Empire
• Honorary Doctor of the University of Ulster
• Honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast
• Honorary doctorate from the Open University
• Briton
• Born in 1938
• Woman
• Northern Irishman