Tom Hartley (born 1945[1]) is a historian and Irish republican politician.
Hartley grew up in the Falls Road area of Belfast and became a republican activist in the late 1960s.
In 1970, he was imprisoned in the Crumlin Road gaol for ten months for riotous behaviour; he was again detained in 1978.
[2] Hartley became active in Sinn Féin, serving as the General Secretary in the mid-1980s and the Chairperson in the early 1990s.
[4][5] Hartley was one of three Sinn Féin candidates in Northern Ireland at the European election in 1994.