Eamon Melaugh: 1933-2025

A tribute to my uncle.

My uncle Eamon Melaugh died last week at the age of 92. He devoted his life to civil rights and to a better future for Northern Ireland. It was Eamon’s idea to organise a civil rights march in Derry on 5 October 1968, the moment that many historians cite as the beginning of the ‘Troubles’. And yet Eamon was always a vocal opponent of the violence and th…