[1] He was born into a Protestant family at 57 Riga Street in Belfast on 7 November 1884, he was the son of Samuel Kyle, a draper, and Jane Wilson.
[2] The Labour Representation Committee became the main section of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), and Kyle was elected for the party at the 1925 Northern Ireland general election, to represent Belfast North, standing in opposition to partition.
After Nationalist Joe Devlin was suspended from the Parliament for attacking the Unionist Party as "villains, bullies, conspirators and ruffians", he led the NILP in joining with the Nationalists and two independent Unionist MPs in walking out, earning them suspensions from the body.
[2] Following the restructuring of constituencies, Kyle stood in Belfast Oldpark at the 1929 Northern Ireland general election, but was unsuccessful, losing by just 189 votes.
[2] In 1932, Kyle became the Irish secretary of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union and moved to Dublin.