Kennedy Lindsay

Who was Kennedy Lindsay?

Kennedy Lindsay was a Northern Ireland politician and a leading advocate of Ulster nationalism.

Born in Saskatchewan, Canada of Ulster Scots descent, Lindsay was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. After securing his PhD, he took up lecturing posts in North America and Nigeria before eventually settling in Northern Ireland and lecturing in the School of Humanities at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, County Londonderry.

Lindsay entered politics as a member of the Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party and was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly set up under the 1973 Sunningdale Agreement to represent that party.

His Eight Point Ulster Plan, produced for the Loyalist Association of Workers, had garnered him much attention and he soon rose to become one of the most prominent members of the Vanguard. As per CAIN, the Eight Point Ulster Plan's main points can be summarised as follows:

The sole task for the future must be to destroy the Irish Republican Army

The British government must commit to governing Northern Ireland in the same way as the rest of the United Kingdom