Danny Morrison

Daniel Gerard Morrison (born 9 January 1953 in Belfast, Northern Ireland), known generally as Danny Morrison is an Irish republican writer and activist. He is also the secretary of the Bobby Sands Trust and current chairman of Féile an Phobail. Danny Morrison was born in Andersonstown, a nationalist suburb of Belfast, on 9 January 1953, the son of Danny and Susan Morrison. His father worked as a painter at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in East Belfast. The Morrisons were a strongly republican family. His uncles had been jailed for their part in the IRA's Northern Campaign in the 1940s; one of his uncles was Harry White, a prominent IRA man. He joined Sinn Féin in 1966 and helped to organise 50th anniversary commemorations of the Easter...