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- Josephine Bernadette McAliskey (née Devlin; born 23 April 1947), usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish civil rights leader and former politician. She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Ulster in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1974.
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Josephine Bernadette McAliskey (née Devlin; born 23 April 1947), usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish civil rights leader and former politician. [2] She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Ulster in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1974.
Sep 22, 2016 · The Queen's University Belfast psychology student from Cookstown, Co Tyrone, who was then Bernadette Devlin, was a founding member of the college-based civil rights movement, People's Democracy.
- Kitty Holland
Mar 8, 2019 · 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.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Dec 22, 2022 · Devlin criticised Irish-Americans who opposed the struggle for African-American rights in the U.S. but supported the fight for civil rights in Ireland. She returned to Ireland disillusioned by Irish-America but her relationship with the Black Panther Party remained strong.
- Took Part in Protests
- Battle of The Bogside
- Assault in House of Commons
- Daughter Arrested
- Further Reading
This was a period when many in the younger Catholic community in Northern Ireland were turning away from both constitutional nationalism as represented by the socially respectable and bourgeois Nationalist party and the revolutionary Sinn Fein movement. In place of the immediately unlikely goal of Irish unity, they began to insist on civil rightsfo...
When the Protestant and Unionist Apprentice Boys' Parade in Derry on August 12, 1969, was followed by sectarian clashes and rioting, barricades were erected around the Catholic section, the Bogside, to exclude a police force of decided bias from the area. Devlin was a central figure in urging on the construction of the barricades and encouraging th...
In January 1972 she assaulted the home secretary, Reginald Maudling, in the House of Commons following the "Bloody Sunday" incident in Derry in which 13 people were killed by the army in the process of breaking up a meeting held against legal interdiction. In April 1973 she married a school teacher, Michael McAliskey. The following February she los...
In the 1990s, Devlin voiced her support for the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization in its efforts to win gay men and lesbians the right to march in New YorkCity's St. Patrick's Day Parade. In November 1996, Devlin's daughter Roisin McAliskey was arrested in Belfast on charges connected to an IRA bombing of a British Army barracks. Devlin protested ...
Devlin's own autobiography, written the year she became celebrated, The Price of My Soul (1969), is an excellent portrait of her personality and ideology, especially her socialism, feminism, and anti-clericalism. It indicates her contempt for regular politics, which no doubt explains her lack of success later. It should be accompanied by a reading ...
Apr 29, 2023 · Josephine Bernadette Devlin was born and raised in Cookstown, County Derry, Northern Ireland, to Irish Catholic parents, John James and Elisabeth Bernadette Devlin, where the Catholic majority...
In April 1969 Belfast civil rights campaigner Bernadette Devlin was elected to the British House of Commons, representing the seat of Mid-Ulster. At 21 Devlin was the youngest member of the Commons and the youngest woman ever elected to Parliament.
