Madge Davison

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Madge Davison (13 June 1949 – 27 January 1991) was an Irish political activist from Belfast. In the 1970s she served on the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland and was the first general secretary of the Connolly Youth Movement after it became an all-Ireland body in 1970. She grew up in a working-class Protestant family on the Shore Road in Belfast. Davison worked with several groups in Northern Ireland, including the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, where she was a full-time organiser. In the late 1980s she began studying law, but her life was cut short by cancer in 1991. She was survived by her husband, John Hobbs, and two sons. The Madge Davison prize at Queen's University Belfast was created in her honour.