Jamie Bryson

Jamie Bryson (born 1990) is a loyalist activist in Northern Ireland who attracted media attention as a leading figure in the Belfast City Hall flag protests. He is the author of four ebooks including The Three Headed Dog.

Bryson, an Ulster Protestant from Donaghadee, was born in 1990 to David and Louise Bryson. He first came to public attention as the vice-chair of the North Down Somme Society, in which role he led complaints that the Royal British Legion were excluding the society from participation in Remembrance Day events due to its alleged loyalist paramilitary links. He became a "youth cohesion worker", and in December 2010 helped found the Community Partnership political party. He stood for the party in Bangor West at the Northern Ireland local elections, 2011, but took only 167 votes and was not elected.

In 2011, Bryson was active in a campaign against North Down Borough Council's allocation of Peace III funding, through which he met with Martin McGuinness. Early in 2012, he was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon, which he stated was to protect himself from drug dealers angered by his role as a community activist. Later in the year, he published The First Shades of God, a book which argued that churches should adapt to popular culture.

At the end of 2012, Bryson became a leading figure in the Belfast City Hall flag protests, serving for a time as chair of the Ulster People's Forum. In this role he has co-operated closely with Willie Frazer. The two briefly split in February 2013, before joining forces again. Several times, he was a member of the audience of the Stephen Nolan Show when the flags protest was the subject of heated debate and was challenged by Nolan to explain his position regarding the street protests. Bryson compared the treatment of the flag-protesters to the treatment of Jews by the Germans during the Nazi era. In a Twitter post on 25 February 2013, Bryson stated that he would not view the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), as terrorists.

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