Owen Carron
Owen Gerard Carron ( born February 9, 1953 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland) was an active Republican in Northern Ireland and an elected member for the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the House of Commons of Great Britain in the period 1981 to 1983 as he successfully for the anti- H-Block candidate.
Early life
Owen studied in Manchester and was in a Catholic school in Armagh lessons in history and religion. This office he gave up because it was too far for him to go to the farm of his 75 year-old father. He was a member of a local H-Block Committee and organized successful meetings, marches and demonstrations in the hunger strike of 1980.
Campaign manager
Carron was the campaign manager of Bobby Sands in April 1981, who won this election and 26 days later died as a result of his hunger strike. Because of the British suffrage amendment to the Representation of the People Act 1981, it was then not possible that prisoners could be set up to elections, which were sentenced to more than a year in prison. Therefore Carron stood as a candidate for the so-called anti H-Block/Proxy Political Prisoner in the by-election after he had been diagnosed as a candidate of the national forces.
Deputies election
Carron was with even greater majority than Bobby Sands elected on 20 August 1981 in the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone and was then the youngest member of the British House of Representatives. However, as well as most other Irish republican deputies he took his seat in the House not true. During this time he fell on among Irish Republicans, because he was always dressed in a suit and tie.
Carron made no secret of the fact that he sympathized with the Sinn Féin and joined her in 1982. In October 1982, he was installed as the candidate of Sinn Féin for the Parliament of Northern Ireland and 1983 Carron joined again for the general election as the official candidate of Sinn Féin, but lost but Ken Maginnis of the Ulster Unionist Party. The defeat was caused by the behavior of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, which split through the establishment of an autonomous candidates, the national votes.
Arrests and later life
Carron has been fixed by Danny Morrison on January 21, 1982 in the United States because they were illegally crossed the border from Canada. He was deported and later, both men were convicted because they had the American officials made false statements and submitted observations.
In 1986, a rifle, an AK -47, found in his vehicle. He was imprisoned, but was released for re-election in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1986. He lost the election and then went to County Leitrim in the Republic of Ireland. After the intervention of Great Britain in the Republic of Ireland, he was arrested and taken two and a half years in prison, as the Irish Court regarded the possession of automatic weapons as a political offense.
After his release, he worked as a general contractor before he took up in 1995 with as a teacher and headmaster of the National School in Ballimore was.
2002 Carron was on a list of members of Sinn Féin, which granted the British government amnesty.
In 2007, he was the campaign manager of the candidate of Sinn Féin Martin Kenny in the constituency of Roscommon - South Leitrim during the election to Dáil Éireann ( the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland).
Others
Carron is the nephew of former nationalist politician of the National Party John Carron.