Tom Hartley
65th Lord Mayor of Belfast
In office
1 June 2008 – 1 June 2009
Preceded byJim Rodgers
Succeeded byNaomi Long
Member of
Belfast City Council
In office
19 May 1993 – 4 September 2013[1]
Preceded bySeán McKnight
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyLower Falls
Personal details
BornBelfast, Northern Ireland
Political partySinn Féin
Websitewww.sinnfein.ie

Tom Hartley (born 1945 or 1946) is a historian and Irish republican politician. Hartley grew up in the Falls Road area of Belfast and became a republican activist in the late 1960s. In 1970, he was imprisoned in the Crumlin Road gaol for ten months for riotous behaviour; he was again detained in 1978. During the 1981 Irish hunger strike, Hartley chaired the POW Committee.[2]

Hartley became active in Sinn Féin, serving as the General Secretary in the mid-1980s and the Chair in the early 1990s.[2] In 1993, he was elected to Belfast City Council for the Lower Falls and has held his seat at each subsequent election.[3] Hartley was one of three Sinn Féin candidates in Northern Ireland at the European election in 1994. Although he took only 3.8% of the votes cast and was not elected, he did receive more votes than the party's other candidates.[4] In 2008, Hartley became the second Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Belfast.[2] In his spare time, he conducts tours of Belfast City Cemetery[5] and authored the 2006 book Written in Stone: The History of Belfast City Cemetery.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Black, Rebecca (4 September 2013). "Sinn Fein's Tom Hartley departs Belfast City Hall as 'a much better place'". Belfast Telegraph. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Sinn Féin's Tom Hartley elected Mayor of Belfast", An Phoblacht, 5 June 2008
  3. ↑ Belfast City Council Elections 1993-2005, Northern Ireland Elections
  4. ↑ The 1994 European elections, Northern Ireland Elections
  5. ↑ Laura Friel, "A winter's tale", An Phoblacht, 16 December 1999
  6. ↑ Written in Stone, Belfast City Council
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