Murtagh Morgan was a trade unionist and Irish republican politician

Politician

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Morgan lived in Belfast

Belfast

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 and had a Roman Catholic background. In the 1920s, he became a republican labour activist in the Northern Ireland Labour Party

Northern Ireland Labour Party

The Northern Ireland Labour Party was an Irish political party which operated from 1924 until 1987.In 1913 the British Labour Party resolved to give the recently formed Irish Labour Party exclusive organising rights in Ireland...

 (NILP), claiming to act in the spirit of James Connolly

James Connolly

James Connolly was an Irish republican and socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents and spoke with a Scottish accent throughout his life. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of...

. By 1925, he had become the President of the Belfast section of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union

Irish Transport and General Workers' Union

The Irish Transport and General Workers Union, an Irish trade union, was founded by James Larkin in 1908 as a general union. Initially drawing its membership from branches of the Liverpool-based National Union of Dock Labourers, from which Larkin had been expelled, it grew to include workers in a...

. By the 1930s, he was Chairman of the union, and was active on Belfast Trades Council. He supported the Republican Congress

Republican Congress

The Republican Congress was an Irish republican political organisation founded in 1934, when left-wing republicans left the Irish Republican Army. The Congress was led by such IRA veterans as Peadar O'Donnell, Frank Ryan and George Gilmore. It was a socialist organisation and was dedicated to a...

 initiative, started in 1934. During this period, he was close to the Socialist Party of Northern Ireland faction of the NILP.

At some point Morgan left the NILP, and at the Northern Ireland general election, 1953

Northern Ireland general election, 1953

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, he was elected as the Irish Labour Party MP for Belfast Dock

Belfast Dock (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)

Belfast Dock was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.-Boundaries:Belfast Dock was a borough constituency comprising part of northern Belfast...

. He stood down at the 1958 general election

Northern Ireland general election, 1958

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, and Gerry Fitt

Gerry Fitt

Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt was a politician in Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party , a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.-Early years:...

 stood as the group's candidate.

Morgan nominated Albert Price as in independent Irish republican candidate for Belfast West

Belfast West (UK Parliament constituency)

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 at the February 1974 UK general election  He was also named as a possible Republican Labour Party

Republican Labour Party

The Republican Labour Party was a political party in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1964, with two MPs at Stormont, Harry Diamond and Gerry Fitt...

 candidates in Belfast North

Belfast North (UK Parliament constituency)

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, but in the event the party disbanded and did not stand any candidates.