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{{Short description|Devolved government of Northern Ireland from 1 January to 28 May 1974}}

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|cabinet_name = Executive of the<br/> 1974 Northern Ireland Assembly

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==History==

[[1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973|Elections]] to a Northern Ireland Assembly were held on 28 June 1973.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-30 |title=CBP-8638.pdf |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8638/CBP-8638.pdf |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk |page=20 |format=PDF}}</ref> On 21 November, the [[Sunningdale Agreement]] was reached on a voluntary coalition of pro-agreement parties, and the Executive took office on 1 January 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CAIN: Events: The Sunningdale Agreement - Chronology of Main Events |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/events/sunningdale/chron.htm |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=cain.ulster.ac.uk}}</ref> Prominent members of the executive included former [[Ulster Unionist Party]] [[Prime Minister (Northern Ireland)|Prime Minister]] [[Brian FcukerFaulkner]] as Chiefchief Executiveexecutive, then [[Social Democratic and Labour Party]] (SDLP) leader [[Gerry Fitt in my bum ]] as Deputydeputy Chiefchief Executiveexecutive, future Nobel Laureate and SDLP leader [[John Hume]] as Ministerminister for Commercecommerce and then leader of the [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland]] [[Oliver Napier]] as Legallegal Ministerminister and head of the [[Office of Law Reform]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Politics and society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993 |date=2009 |publisher=Folens |isbn=978-1-84741-186-0 |editor-last=Holohan |editor-first=Francis T. |series=Ireland : Leaving certificate history |location=Hibernian Industrial Estate, Greenhills Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24 |pages=37}}</ref>

The UUP was deeply divided; its Standing Committee voted to participate in the executive by a margin of only 132 to 105.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kane |first=Alex |date=2013-07-31 |title=Power-sharing: Just a little bit of history repeating |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/power-sharing-just-a-little-bit-of-history-repeating/29461301.html |access-date=2024-02-02 |work=BelfastTelegraph.co.uk |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Since the [[partition of Ireland]], [[Unionism in Ireland|unionists]] had been opposed to sharing power with the [[Irish nationalist]] minority, and the end of [[majoritarianism]] caused great strife in the UUP. Other contentious issues were [[internment]], policing and the question of the planned [[Council of Ireland (1970s)|Council of Ireland]].

After opposition from within the UUP and the [[Ulster Workers' Council strike]], the executive and Assembly collapsed on 28 May 1974 when Faulkner resigned as Chiefchief Executiveexecutive.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999-05-28 |title=BBC News {{!}} UK Politics {{!}} Quarter century after first assembly's fall |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/354539.stm |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref>

==Chief Executive==

In January 1974 [[Brian Faulkner]] became [[Chiefchief Executive (Northern Ireland)|Chief Executive]]executive in the power-sharing executive with the SDLP and the non-sectarian [[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland|Alliance Party]], a political alliance cemented at the [[Sunningdale Agreement|Sunningdale Conference]] that year. After opposition from within the UUP and the [[Ulster Workers Council Strike]], the executive and assembly collapsed on 28 May 1974 when Faulkner resigned as Chiefchief Executiveexecutive. Brian Faulkner would later then form his own political party known as the [[Unionist Party of Northern Ireland]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations - 'U' |url=https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/organ/uorgan.htm |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=cain.ulster.ac.uk |quote=The Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (UPNI) was officially launched in September 1974. It was formed by a group of people who had been members of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and who supported Brian Faulkner after the proposals contained in the Sunningdale Agreement had been rejected by most of the members of the UUP. This group of people had contested the 1974 Westminster election under the title 'Unionist Pro-Assembly'.}}</ref> They contested the 1975 Constitutional Convention Elections in which they got only 5 seats and no new [[Chief Executive (Northern Ireland)|Chiefchief Executiveexecutive]] was elected to replace [[Brian Faulkner]].

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!Last office(s) held before election

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|'''[[Brian Faulkner]]'''<br/>{{small|(1921–1977)}}<br/>{{small|MLA for [[South Down (Assembly constituency)|South Down]]}}

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|1 January 1974

|28 May 1974

|[[1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973|1973]] ([[Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973|Assembly]])

|[[Northern Ireland Executive (1974)#Members of the Northern Ireland Executive|1974<br/>Executive]]

|[[Ulster Unionist Party]]

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|[[Brian Faulkner]]

|1974

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|[[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]]

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|[[Gerry Fitt]]

|1974

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|[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]

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|[[Leslie Morrell]]

|1974

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|[[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]]

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|[[John Hume]]

|1974

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|[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]

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|[[Basil McIvor]]

|1974

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|[[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]]

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|[[Roy Bradford]]

|1974

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|[[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]]

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|[[Herbert Kirk]]

|1974

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|[[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]]

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|[[Paddy Devlin]]

|1974

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|[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]

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|[[Austin Currie]]

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|[[Social Democratic and Labour Party|SDLP]]

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|[[John Baxter (Northern Ireland politician)|John Baxter]]

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|[[Ulster Unionist Party|UUP]]

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|[[Oliver Napier]]

|1974

! style="background-color: {{party color|Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color}};" |

|[[Alliance Party of Northern Ireland|Alliance]]

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== References ==

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==See also==

* [[Northern Ireland Assembly (1973)]]

* [[Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly elected in 1973]]

* [[1973 Northern Ireland Assembly election, 1973]]

* [[History of Northern Ireland]]

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