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Hester Dunn
Hester Dunn (born 1944) is a Northern Irish former loyalist activist and writer who was a member of the Ulster Defence Association's (UDA) political wing during the period of religious-political conflict known as the Troubles. She headed the UDA's women's department and ran the public relations and administration section at the organisation's headquarters in Gawn Street, off the Newtownards Road. An outspoken critic of strip searching female prisoners, she was a founder and activist for "Justice For Lifers", an organisation which advocated prison reform in Northern Ireland.
For over 10 years, Dunn contributed to the UDA's magazine ''Ulster'' and helped construct the ''Common Sense: Northern Ireland - An Agreed Process'' document which was a treatise on power-sharing between loyalists and nationalists, largely composed by South Belfast brigadier John McMichael and UDA commander Andy Tyrie. She left the UDA following the death of McMichael in December 1987 and the resignation of Tyrie four months later. McMichael was killed when a booby-trap bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded under his car. Tyrie resigned as commander after finding a similar device beneath his car.
==Early life==
Dunn was born into a Protestant family in Northern Ireland and brought up in staunchly loyalist east Belfast. She describes herself as "an Ulster woman".〔Deane, Seamus, Carpenter, Andrew, Williams, Jonathan (2002). ''The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing Volume 5: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions''. New York: New York University Press. p.1544〕 Dunn worked for a time as a belly dancer.〔 After becoming a mother, she moved into the loyalist Suffolk housing estate located in an interface area in west Belfast.〔Wood, Ian S. (2006). ''Crimes of Loyalty: a History of the UDA''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p.14〕 Although she had no previous interest in politics, Dunn joined the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) - the largest loyalist paramilitary organisation - because of the prominent role it played within the loyalist community.〔 Dunn's early involvement with the UDA caused a number of difficulties for her as she became a target for local republican youths and her daughter was sent to Coventry at a local community centre when she attended Irish dance classes, a pastime usually associated with Catholics.〔Wood, p. 15〕 Dunn also faced charges for public order offences and, although these were eventually dismissed, she was remanded on bail for eleven months as a result.〔
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