Northern Ireland civil rights leader and politician Ivan Cooper has died aged 75. Image: Niall Carson Northern Ireland civil rights leader and politician Ivan Cooper has died aged 75. Image: Niall Carson CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER and Northern Irish politics veteran Ivan Cooper has died aged 75.
A co-founder of the SDLP, Cooper played a pivotal role in the Northern Irish civil rights movement – he was one of the leaders of the civil rights march on the day of Bloody Sunday and went on to become a consistent critic of sectarian violence during the Troubles.Born into a Protestant family in Killaloo, Co Derry in 1944, Cooper first became politically active in the 1960s just as the campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland began to gain momentum.
“Ivan Cooper was born to break the mould. A working class Protestant man who saw a common injustice and inequality that had taken root in Protestant and Catholic communities, he dedicated his life to fighting it,” he said in a statement.Ivan Cooper RIP. Physical frailty could not diminish his passion for justice, rights & peace.
“Ivan Cooper will forever hold a special place, not only, in our hearts but in the history of this island and in the continuing of the fight for civil rights and social justice,” they said.“He was a fierce critic of the sectarian violence that engulfed his beloved city of Derry over the following decades and worked closely and tirelessly with his good friend John Hume to keep the hope of peace and equality alive, helping to pave the way for the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement,” he said.
I hope he's not written out of history.
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