Methodist Ministers

Eric Gallagher - Peacemaker in Ireland

A former Moderator of the Methodist Church in Ireland (1967)  Dr Eric Gallagher was the first Protestant churchman to meet with IRA representatives. A meeting  occoured in Feakle, County Clare, Ireland in the 1970s in an unsuccessfully bid  to broker a peace.

His father, Robert Gallagher,  had also been Moderator of the Methodist Church in Ireland (1946).