Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish Civil Rights leader, Member of British Parliament 19671974
My name is Bernadette. Surname: McAliskey, formerly Devlin. I have been a campaigner for social justice and human rights all of my adult life. Over time I became an internationalist socialist republican and feminist. I grew up in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, one of six children. My father, a member of the amalgamated union of wood workers died when I.
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Bernadette McAliskey, née Bernadette Devlin (1947-) is a political activist and former politician. Born in Cookstown, Tyrone, she studied psychology at Queen's University, Belfast. A member of.
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After engaging, on the side of the residents, in the Battle of the Bogside, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was convicted of incitement to riot in December 1969, for which she served a short jail term.
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey "My name is Bernadette. Surname: McAliskey, formerly Devlin. I have been a campaigner for social justice and human rights all of my adult life. Over time I became an.
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Bernadette McAliskey was the youngest-ever woman MP when she was elected at the age of 21 in 1969. She served as the Independent Unity member for Mid Ulster from 1969-73. As an MP, she continued to champion the cause of catholics in Northern Ireland. She was imprisoned for her part in the sectarian riots in Londonderry in August 1969, which led.
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey is a living symbol of that struggle for civil rights. She and her husband, Michael, were riddled with bullets in an assassination attempt in 1981, and survived.
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Mr. Watson was one of three armed men arrested by British paratroop ers minutes after the shooting at Mrs. McAliskey's home nearCalisland, 50 miles west of Belfast, on Jan. 16, 1981. He entered.
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Civil Rights Leader & former politician Bernadette McAliskey explains how she w. "Have you ever had an experience of not knowing something till you knew it?"
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About Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. Bernadette Devlin, a radical feminist and Catholic activist in Northern Ireland, was a founder of People's Democracy. After one failed attempt to be elected, she became the youngest woman ever elected to Parliament in 1969, running as a socialist. When she was very young, her father taught her much about Irish.
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—Bernadette Devlin McAliskey "Change" had never been part of any government's agenda in the society into which she was born at Cookstown, County Tyrone, on April 23, 1947. Northern Ireland itself had been the outcome of a refusal on the part of its Protestant and Presbyterian majority to acquiesce in a transfer of political power which would.
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, from the documentary Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey . If her success in the Mid-Ulster byelection upset the political hegemony of the Unionist Party, her.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish Civil Rights leader, Member of British Parliament 19671974
Here's Bernadette Devlin McAliskey: angular accent, acerbic asides and unreconstructed radicalism all still stubbornly in place. Had Lelia Doolan unleashed this gripping documentary 10 years ago.
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Josephine Bernadette McAliskey , usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish civil rights leader, and former politician. She served as Member of Parliament for Mid Ulster in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1974.
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Bernadette McAliskey, who was then known as Bernadette Devlin, was a leading figure in the civil rights movement and was one of the founding members of People's Democracy established in 1968.
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Civil Rights Leader / Former MP (1969-74) Born in Tyrone in 1947, Bernadette McAliskey (nee Devlin) grew up in a working-class family of six children. Before he died when she was nine, her father taught her about Irish political history which, among other things, would influence her trajectory in life. The conditions in which the family lived.
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Bernadette McAliskey, then known as Bernadette Devlin, was a leading figure in the civil rights movement and was one of the founding members of People's Democracy established in 1968.