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Patrick Roche MLA
Name: Mr Patrick Roche
Party: Northern Ireland Unionist Party (NIUP)
Constituency: Lagan Valley
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Married: Yes
Education: Trinity College, Dublin
University Of Durham
Graduate in Economics and Politics
MA in Political Philosophy
Occupation and brief outline of career: Banking, 1957-1966
Economics Lecturer, University of Ulster, 1974-1995
Philosophy of Religion, Irish Baptist College, 1978-present
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Member of the New Northern Ireland Assembly, 1998
Other memberships/ interests/ achievements/ awards (political, community, sporting, public service) please give dates.: Books Published
PJ Roche and B Barton (ED);
The Northern Ireland Question: Myth and Reality (1991),
The Northern Ireland Question: Perspectives and Policies (1994) &
The Northern Ireland Question: Nationalism, Unionism and Partition (1999)
PJ Roche and J. Esmond Birnie, Economics Lesson for Irish Nationalists (1995)
PJ Roche, The Belfast Agreement and the Appeasement of Terrorism (2001)