Alistair Black

Alistair Black was a Northern Irish unionist politician.

Background The headmaster of Carrick Primary School, Black came to prominence as the leading figure in Ulster Vanguard in County Armagh. Due to his outspoken loyalist views, the Irish Republican Army attempted to kill him in 1972 and again in 1975, when a bomb left in his desk drawer instead killed a police officer who was investigating.

Black was elected to Craigavon Borough Council for the Vanguard Unionist Progressive Party at the 1973 Northern Ireland local elections, and then to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention in Armagh in 1975. He joined the United Ulster Unionist Party (UUUP) split from Vanguard and held his council seat in 1977 and 1981,