Conclusion
Although Fitt was initially considered a nationalist politician, his career defies the traditional terms used for the discussion of Northern Irish politics. It would perhaps be most fair to say that he was first and foremost a socialist politician rather than a nationalist. For example, on 11 October 1974 he stated:
In Northern Ireland it is very difficult to be a socialist without being labelled a Unionist socialist or an anti-partitionist socialist, but I am a socialist....
Lord Fitt died on 26 August 2005, at the age of 79, after a long history of heart disease, a widower survived by his five daughters. When his daughters had campaigned for him in elections, they were nicknamed 'the Miss Fitts'.
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