Joseph Devlin
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| Leader of the Nationalist Party | |
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In office 1921–1934 |
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| Succeeded by | Thomas Joseph Campbell |
| Leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party | |
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In office 1918–1921 |
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| Preceded by | John Dillon |
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| Born | 13 February 1871 |
| Died | 18 January 1934 (aged 62) |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Joseph Devlin, also known as Joe Devlin, (13 February 1871 – 18 January 1934) was an Irish journalist and influential nationalist politician. He was a member of parliament (MP) for the Irish Parliamentary Party in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and later a Nationalist Party MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
Born at 10 Hamill Street, in the Lower Falls area of Belfast, he was the fifth child of Charles Devlin (d. 1906) who ran a hackney cab, and his wife Eliza King (d. 1902) who sold groceries from their home. Until he was twelve he attended the nearby St. Mary's Christian Brothers' School in Divis Street, where he was educated in a more Irish nationalist and Catholic view of Irish history and culture than offered in the state system.
He showed an early gift for public speaking when he became chairman of a debating society founded in 1886 to commemorate the first Irish nationalist election victory in West Belfast. From 1891–1893 he was a journalist on the Irish News, then on the Freeman's Journal when he became associated with the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), which he helped to establish in the 1890s. He became a lifelong opponent of its loyalist counterpart, the Orange Order. He then worked at Samuel Young MP's brewery company, for whom he managed a Belfast pub until 1902.
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