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Hugh Logue (born 1949) is a Northern Irish former Social Democratic and Labour Party politician and economist who now works as a commentator on political and economic issues. He is also a director of two renewable energy companies in Europe and the United States. He is the father of author Antonia Logue. ==Background== Hugh Logue first came to prominence as a member of the executive of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association〔http://www.birw.org/bsireports/31_40/report33.html section 8.1.1〕 – the only SDLP member of the executive. He stood as a candidate in elections to the new Northern Ireland Assembly in 1973 and was elected for Londonderry, aged 24, the youngest candidate elected that year.〔(Londonderry election results ), Ark, accessed 3 May 2012〕 The Northern Ireland State Papers of 1980 show that together with John Hume and Austin Currie he played a key role in presenting the SDLP'S 'Three Strands' approach to the Thatcher Government's Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins in April 1980 (''Irish Times'', 30 December 2010). The "Three Strands" approach eventually became the basis for the Good Friday Agreement. The Irish State papers from 1980 reveal that Logue was a confidante of the Irish Government of that time briefing it regularly on SDLP's outlook. He is also known for his controversial comments at Trinity College Dublin at the time of the power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement, which many blame for helping to contribute to the Agreement's defeat, to wit, that: (was ) "the vehicle that would trundle Unionists into a united Ireland".〔(CAIN: Sunningdale - Chronology of Main Events )〕 Logue unsuccessfully contested the Londonderry seat in the February 1974 and 1979 Westminster Elections. He was elected to the 1975 constitutional convention and the 1982 Assembly. He was a member of the New Ireland Forum in 1983. In the 1980s he was a member of the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace and played a prominent part in its efforts to resolve the 1981 Irish hunger strike. His role was credited in ''Ten Men Dead'' by David Beresford,〔''Ten Men Dead'', David Beresford, Harper Collins Publishers (1987)〕''Biting the Grave'' by P. O'Malley〔''Biting the Grave'' by Padraig O'Malley, Beacon Press, 1990〕 and, more recently, in ''Blanketmen'' and ''Afterlives'' by former Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer Richard O'Rawe.〔''Blanketmen'' by Richard O'Rawe, New Island, 1990〕〔''Afterlives'' by Richard O'Rawe, Lilliput Press.〕 Following the 1994 IRA ceasefire, Logue with two EU colleagues was asked by EU President Jacques Delors to consult widely throughout Northern Ireland and the Border regions and prepare recommendations for a Peace and Reconciliation Fund to underpin the peace process. Their community based approach became the blue print for the Peace Programme. In 1997, then EU President (Jacques Santer ) asked the team, led by Logue to return to review the programme and advise for a renewed Peace ll programme . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hugh Logue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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