Robert Malachy Burke, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish activist and politician
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About Robert Malachy Burke
- Robert Malachy Burke (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1998) was a noted Christian Socialist and philanthropist.
- He was born into a landed Church of Ireland family at Ballydugan, Loughrea, County Galway. He was active (alongside his wife, Ann Grattan of Belfast) in a variety of organisations in the fields of community development, co-operativism, peace activism, religion, and politics.
- At Toghermore, Tuam (the birthplace of his mother, Ethel Maud Henry), where he came to live following his parents’ separation, he established an innovative co-operative farm. As a Labour Party representative, he sat on Galway County Council, but despite polling strongly in Galway East at a number of elections, he was not elected to the Dáil Éireann. He entered Seanad Éireann in 1948 through Agricultural Panel, but resigned his seat on 6 December 1950.Following the death of his mother, Burke gifted his property to the Irish health authorities for use in the struggle against tuberculosis, and, early in 1951, he took up a position as a development worker with an Anglican charity in Nigeria.
- Alongside his wife, he worked during the next decades with various agencies in Africa, before the couple retired to Belfast.
- He died in 1998.
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