Austin Currie
Deaglán de Bréadún: Courage of Austin Currie and family was inspiring
ONE night in May 1989, after a meeting of the Coalisland branch of the SDLP, Austin Currie made a phone call to Garret FitzGerald, who had been trying to contact him earlier.
`Founding father of civil rights' Austin Currie to be buried today beside parents in Co Tyrone
`FOUNDING father of civil rights' Austin Currie has returned to be buried today beside his parents in Co Tyrone where he made his famous "fearless" stand for equality.
Tributes paid at funeral of ‘true giant of civil rights’ Austin Currie
Austin Currie, a key figure in Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at the age of 82.
Tributes pour in for Austin Currie ahead of funeral on Saturday
THE funeral of SDLP founding member Austin Currie will take place on Saturday.
Colum Eastwood: Austin Currie's contribution to politics right across Ireland `will never be forgotten'
WITHOUT people like Austin Currie, the north would be a very different place today.
Tributes paid to founding SDLP member and civil rights icon Austin Currie
SDLP co-founder Austin Currie has been remembered by his family as a "guiding star who put the principles of peace, social justice and equality first".
Editorial: Enduring example of power of peaceful protest
IT is perhaps difficult today, at a remove of more than five decades, to fully appreciate the impact of Austin Currie's decision in June 1968 to break in to a house in Caledon, Co Tyrone and make a stand against discrimination.
SDLP at 50: Austin Currie recalls birth of new political force
ALTHOUGH its founders wished to create a “radical force in politics”, it was concern about a possible association with hallucinogenic drugs that finally swung the argument for placing ‘Social Democrat’ ahead of ‘Labour’ in the newly-conceived party’s name.
Bombing claims anger Rev Ian Paisley's family
FORMER Stormont MP Austin Currie claims he was told by a bodyguard of Rev Ian Paisley about a planned attack in Co Donegal just days before a UVF man blew himself up at a power station.
'He shall overcome': moving tribute paid by former MP Austin Currie to Ivan Cooper
FORMER Nationalist MP and leading civil rights figure Austin Currie last night paid a moving tribute to Ivan Cooper - describing him as the "symbolism of reconciliation".