Unity (Northern Ireland)

Unity ( German: unit ) was the name of numerous coalitions nationalist candidates in Northern Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s. At the political direction of nationalism in ( northern) Ireland see also in republicanism.

Under Unity also a party candidate for the city council meetings in 1973 in the constituencies of Fermanagh and Dungannon, which won six seats; in the election 1977, she could not repeat that success and won only two.

The first electoral success verzeichnetete the Unity on 17 April 1969 at Mid Ulster constituency than the left student Bernadette McAliskey won a seat in the British House of Commons. McAliskey that at age 21 the youngest member was in 1970 since the founding of the House of Commons, lost this seat in 1974.

Frank McManus, who ran well in Unity, won in the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone in 1970. Due to the splitting of the national votes between the Republican forces and the Social Democratic and Labour Party, he also lost the election in 1974.

The election of October 1974 in the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone was recovered by Frank Maguire, who ran as an Independent Republican and this seat paused until his death in 1981.

1978 Unity merged with the Nationalist Party for Irish Independence Party.