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Sat 07 Jul 2010Orator and community activist set up 'Belfast Exposed' photographic project
Danny Burke:DANNY BURKE was a teacher, socialist, photographer, community activist, and he was above all colourful. A native of Galway city, he spent nearly two-thirds of his 62 years in Belfast.
In the early 1970s as a member of Official Sinn Féin (which mutated into The Workers’ Party), he was a charismatic orator and activist in Galway. At the time he was a full-time political activist, on the dole, having been sacked from three teaching jobs.
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