Derry Unemployed Action Committee

An initally small, radical group, set up on 22 January 1965 at a meeting in Quigley's Hotel, Foyle Street, Derry, to campaign for investment in jobs in Derry to tackle the high levels of unemployment in the city. Some of the members of the DUAC were also members of the Derry Housing Action Committee and the tactics of direct action were similar to both groups. The main officials of the DUAC in those days were Messrs Gerry Mallett (chair), James Gallagher / Bobby Campbell / Ted Bradley (treasurers), Eamon Melaugh, and myself , holding the positions of public relations officer and honorary secretary respectively. Ó Dochartaigh (1994; p18) (See also: Derry Housing Action Committee.) See: Chapter 1, in, Ó Dochartaigh, Fionnbara. (1994). Ulster's White Negroes. Edinburgh: AK Press. ... Chapter 5, in, Purdie, Bob. (1990). 'Politics in the Streets: The origins of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland'. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.