Harry Diamond

Harry Diamond (1908–1996) was a socialist and an Irish nationalist. He was the MP for Belfast Falls in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and later the leader of the Republican Labour Party.

In 1927, Diamond was the main initiator and first chairman of O'Donnell's GAA. He later became chairman of Antrim GAA.

Diamond was an active nationalist before the Second World War and in 1933 was sentenced to a month in jail for refusing to pay a fine given out for addressing an illegal rally in support of republican prisoners. The following year, he stood in the Belfast Central by-election as an "Anti-Partition" candidate.

Diamond was first elected in the 1940s at a time when the Irish Labour Party was in government in the Republic of Ireland. He left the Labour Party because of the (indirect) consequences of that government's travails over the Mother and Child Scheme and the demand of the majority of Irish Labour members in Belfast that the party should challenge the entrenched power of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Diamond opposed these demands and left the party to fight a city council by-election against a Protestant Irish Labour Party supporter of reform. Diamond lost the by-election but viciously attacked the Labour Party for being in the grip of Communism, thereby effectively destroying it as a political force.

Harry Diamond (disambiguation)

Harry Diamond may refer to:

Harry Diamond (photographer)

Harry Diamond (25 August 1924 – 3 December 2009) was a photographer known for his photographs of artists, jazz musicians and of the East End of London. He was born and worked in London.

At the time of his death Harry Diamond was described in the Times as: 'one of the heroes of British 20th-century photography.....his acutely observed pictures showed a polish and hue not often seen in the canons of British photography

Subjects

Before becoming a photographer in the 1960s, Harry Diamond worked as a stagehand. He often drank in Soho and knew many of the artists whom he photographed sometimes several times, including Frank Auerbach,Francis Bacon, and Lucian Freud,Stephen Finer, John Wonnacott and others, as well as the photographer John Deakin

Other artists whom he photographed included: Michael Andrews, William Coldstream, Edward Middleditch, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Blake, Gilbert and George.

Jazz

From his interest in jazz Diamond also photographed jazz musicians. An early exhibition was called: West End Blues after Louis Armstrong's recording. Diamond photographed the Duke Ellington Orchestra, photographing Paul Jeffries and Paul Gonsalves together and Ellington himself on stage. A photograph of Ellington was chosen by Bruce Bernard for the collection he made of 100 photographs from 1840-1990 that were exhibited at the V & A and published in the Phaidon Press book of the same name.

Harry Diamond (engineer)

Harry Diamond (12 February 1900–21 June 1948) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and namesake for Diamond Ordnance Fuze Laboratories.

Early life

Diamond was born in Russia on February 12, 1900 and immigrated to the United States as a child. He grew up in Quincy, Massachusetts. Mr. Diamond enlisted in the United States Army on October 14, 1918 and was honorably discharged on December 9, 1918. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1922. Diamond worked for the General Electric company for 18 months. He completed his master's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1925 and an Electrical Engineering instructor for 4 years at Lehigh University in electrical engineering.

Bureau of Standards

He joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1927. Diamond headed up the research and development work of the Commerce Department’s newly organized Bureau of Air Commerce. Within two years he developed radio beacon system that permitted the first "blind" aircraft landing. Diamond and his team made the first visual-type radiobeacon system that enabled a pilot to keep on course and to know his approximate position at all times while in flight. direction service could be given to any number of planes flying the course, and that each airplane only had to carry a receiving set, with no other special equipment whatsoever. The pilot would obtain the necessary information pertaining to amplitude of course deviations hands-free and without requiring earphones. To accomplish this the development of vibrating-reed indicators alerting the pilot to an off-course condition.