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Sam Nolan (born 1930) is the secretary of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions and a political activist. Born in Dublin, Nolan became active in the Irish Workers' League soon after World War II,〔Roy Johnston, ''Century of Endeavour'', p.118〕 and was a member of its Executive Committee by 1952.〔Mick Treacy, ''The Communist Party of Ireland 1921 - 2011'', p.249〕 In 1957, he became a member of the executive of the new Unemployed Protest Committee,〔Mike Milotte, ''Communism in Modern Ireland'', p.228〕 and was initially considered the most prominent figure in the movement.〔Roy Johnston, ''Century of Endeavour'', p.154〕 At the Irish general election, 1957, he was asked to stand for the Committee in Dublin South–Central, but refused, believing that anti-communist feeling following the Soviet invasion of Hungary made him an unsuitable candidate. Instead, the movement stood Jack Murphy, who was elected.〔 During the 1960s, Nolan was prominent in the Dublin Housing Action Committee, while he also remained active in the Irish Workers' League. He stood as an independent candidate at the Irish general election, 1969 in Dublin Central, but took only 242 votes and was not elected.〔"(Dublin Central )", ElectionsIreland.org〕 In 1970, the Workers' League merged with the Communist Party of Northern Ireland to form the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI), an Nolan was elected as its first Deputy General Secretary.〔Nicolae Ceaușescu, ''Romania on the way of building up the multilaterally developed socialist society'', p.235〕 In January 1976, Nolan resigned from the CPI alongside Joe Deasy and several youth leaders, in protest at the party's change of line on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.〔D. R. O'Connor Lysaght, ''(The Communist Party of Ireland: A Critical History )"〕 They subsequently formed the Eurocommunist Irish Marxist Society, although this was short-lived, and Nolan soon joined the Labour Party.〔Peter Barberis et al, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations'', pp.224-225〕 He was elected to the Labour Party's Administrative Committee, and became a full-time organiser for the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians.〔''Saothar'', Vols.16-20, p.111〕 Nolan was elected as the Secretary of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions in 1979,〔Séamus Cody, John O'Dowd and Peter Rigney, ''The Parliament of labour: 100 years of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions'', p.252〕 holding the post into the 2010s.〔"(Sam Nolan )", Bread and Roses Productions〕 In his personal life, Nolan is the partner of academic Helena Sheehan.〔"(I went to Tripoli just to give a lecture -- and flew into a seven-day nightmare )", ''Irish Independent'', 5 March 2011〕 ==References== 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「Sam Nolan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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