Henry McDonald was a journalist and author from Northern Ireland who died on February 19, 2023. He served as a journalist for The Guardian and Observer and, beginning in 2021, served as political editor of Belfast-based The News Letter, one of Northern Ireland’s major daily newspapers.
McDonald published a lot of writing about the Troubles and related topics. He was up in South Belfast’s Irish nationalist Markets neighborhood and went to St. Malachy’s College. McDonald previously belonged to the Workers’ Party, a left-leaning organization connected to the Official IRA that split out from Sinn Féin in the early 1970s. Early in the 1980s, he visited the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) with the SFWP’s youth wing.
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McDonald supported the English Premier League team Everton as well as the Northern Irish football team Cliftonville. From his marriage, he had two daughters and a son. Also, he dated novelist June Caldwell for 12 years during which time they lived together in Dublin, where he also taught journalism and feature writing at the Irish Writers Centre and Dublin Management School.
At the age of 57, McDonald passed away from cancer in a Belfast hospital on February 19, 2023.