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Malachy Conlon (died 27 March 1950) was a nationalist politician in Ireland.

Conlon strongly believed that there was a need for a membership organisation linking nationalists in Northern Ireland. He pursued this theme during his campaign for the Nationalist Party in South Armagh at the 1945 Northern Ireland general election. During the campaign, which he fought against a Northern Ireland Labour Party incumbent, he stressed the importance of Christianity to Irish identity and contrasted this with what he described as the "flag of the communist Jew".

Following his election, Conlon worked with Eddie McAteer to found the Irish Anti-Partition League in November 1945, and was appointed its full-time Secretary.

References

1. ^ Brendan Lynn, Holding the Ground: The Nationalist Party in Northern Ireland, 1945 - 72 (1997), ISBN 1-85521-980-8
2. Graham Walker, A History of the Ulster Unionist Party

• 1950 deaths
• Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1945–1949
• Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1949–1953
• Nationalist Party (Ireland) members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
• Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for County Armagh constituencies