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Victor Halley
Northern Irish politician

Victor Halley

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Victor Halley (born 1904) was a nationalist trade unionist in Northern Ireland, from West Belfast.

A Presbyterian, Halley joined the Independent Labour Party, and when this disaffiliated from the British Labour Party, he became a founder member of the small Socialist Party of Northern Ireland, an integral part of the Northern Ireland Labour Party. He fought for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. and was also appointed to the editorial board of the Irish Democrat, a short-lived left-wing journal.

Halley soon became closely aligned with Harry Diamond, and in 1944 he was a founder member of the Socialist Republican Party. He stood for the party at the 1946 Belfast Central by-election for the party, but was defeated by Frank Hanna.

Halley was also a prominent member of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union, rising to become its Vice-Chairman.

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