Sean Farren
| Sean Farren | |
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| Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Antrim North |
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In office 25 June 1998 – 7 March 2007 |
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| Preceded by | New Creation |
| Succeeded by | Declan O'Loan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 September 1939 Dublin, Republic of Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | SDLP |
| Alma mater |
University College Dublin University of Essex University of Ulster |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Sean Nial Farren (born 6 September 1939) is an Irish politician and academic in Northern Ireland.
Farren studied at the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin (BA), University of Essex (MA) and the University of Ulster (PhD). He worked as a teacher in Dublin, Switzerland and Sierra Leone before becoming a lecturer at the University of Ulster.
Farren contested the Westminster seat of North Antrim as a member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) at the 1979 general election, and stood at each subsequent general election until 2004.
In 1982, Farren was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in North Antrim. In line with SDLP policy, he instead sat on the New Ireland Forum (1993–4).
Farren was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum in 1996, again for North Antrim, and held this seat in the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 and 2003, before standing down at the 2007 election.
Since 2008 he has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Education at the Ulster University. He has also been involved in a number of projects aimed at strengthening democratic institutions in the Middle East, North Africa, West and East Africa.
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