John Robb (surgeon)

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John Robb
Senator
In office 13 May 1982 – 1989
Constituency	Nominated by the Taoiseach
Personal details
Born	Ballymoney, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Independent
Profession	Surgeon
Religion	Protestant

John D.A. Robb is a surgeon from Ballymoney in County Antrim, Northern Ireland who served for seven years a member of Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Oireachtas (the legislature of the Republic of Ireland).

Career

A liberal Protestant in the all-Ireland tradition, Robb was educated at Rockport School, Holywood, Co Down, and at Merchiston Castle School Edinburgh. Later, he became a Wolfe Tone Society contact in the 1960s, and in the early 1980s he founded the New Ireland Group, which sought to promote a new vision of Ireland which would radically differ both from the Unionist viewpoint and from the Catholic and Gaelic vision which was then perceived to be on offer as an alternative to Unionism.

In 1982, he was nominated by the Taoiseach Charles Haughey to be a member of the 16th Seanad. He was nominated to the 17th Seanad by the Fine Gael Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald, and by Haughey to the 18th Seanad. After the 1989 general election he was not nominated to the 19th Seanad.

External links

• New Ireland Group