Eric Gallagher

Who was Eric Gallagher?

Rev. Dr Eric Gallagher CBE, BA, BD was the former President of the Methodist Church in Ireland.

In 1974 he was one of a group of Protestant clergymen who met with Provisional IRA officers in Feakle, County Clare in the 1970s to try to broker a peace after achieving a temporary ceasefire. The meeting was broken up by the Gardai but the IRA officers had already left. He spent 22 years as superintendent of the Belfast Central Mission, from 1957 until 1979.

He died on 30 December 1999, aged 87, and was interred at the Lisburn New Cemetery at Blaris, County Down.