Eddie McAteer

Biography:

Eddie McAteer was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland. Born in Coatbridge Scotland McAteer's family moved to Derry in Northern Ireland while he was young. In 1930 he joined the Inland Revenue where he worked until 1944. He then became an accountant and more actively involved in politics. While his brother Hugh became a prominent Irish republican involved in the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin Eddie chose nationalist politics.