#Bernadette Devlin

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in Irish History | 17 April:

In the Liturgical calendar, today is the Feast Day of Saint Donnán of Eigg, a Gaelic priest, likely from Ireland, who died on this date in 617. He attempted to introduce Christianity to the Picts of northwestern Scotland during the Early Middle Ages. Donnán is the patron saint of Eigg, an island in the Inner Hebrides where he was martyred. The Martyrology of Donegal, compiled by Michael O’Clery…

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#irelandinspires #irishhistory #OTD #17 April #Bernadette Devlin #Charles Stewart Parnell #Co. Wicklow #Fiachra Mangan Photography #Glenmalure #History #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #Lord Mayor of Cork #Paul McGrath #The Black Pearl #Today in Irish History #Tomás MacCurtain

[justwatchmyeyes]

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Bernadette Devlin

#Bernadette Devlin #quotes #life #love #important #tumblr #instagood #aesthetic #girl #literature #sad quotes #sad poem #zitate

[mariemariemaria]

"The most constructive thing I ever did in Westminster was hit the liar," she said.

"I was actually going to lift the mace and throw it on the floor and I thought better of that.

"I saw him sitting smirking and I just went over and actually caught his tie and hit him with the back of my hand."

#bernadette devlin #northern ireland #personally i think johnny mercer needs a good smack #i cant be the only one

[werewolfetone]

Hate it when you try to buy a book that you assume is going to be readily available because there's no reason for it to be difficult to find but when you search for it online every site is like. 2 copies exist on this planet (we have 1 of them) it will cost the entire contents of your bank account & if you do buy it it'll be shipped from an isolated cave in siberia and will take anywhere from three weeks to thirty years to arrive

#girls when they are trying to purchase Bernadette Devlin's memoir #jory.txt

[victusinveritas]

“There is nothing sadder to people struggling against oppression in Ireland than to see our own people being used to oppress Black people.”

Bernadette Devlin was given the freedom of New York City in 1969, she gave the key of the city to the Harlem chapter of the Black Panthers.

#irish studies #bernadette devlin mcaliskey #black panthers

[famousborntoday]

Josephine Bernadette McAliskey, usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish civil rights leader, and former politician. She served a...

Link: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

#Bernadette Devlin McAliskey #birthday #born today #famous birthday #famous birthdays #1947 #April23 #40s #1940s

[beggars-opera]

Honestly though, while I 100% get the hatred of Irish-Americans for a variety of reasons that time Bernadette Devlin reamed out Boston for being racist she was right to say it and also my father abusing ancestry.com I find it really interesting that someone would think that we're only into in the radical history "for the meme" and not because the majority of us literally exist due to a colonialist genocide and that we might have an interest in seeing the battered, fractured country our ancestors fled from be whole and self-governed again in what would be just a tiny bit of restitution from centuries of oppression, but no. Mëmes

#conservative cops who think they'd be in the ra because they don't actually know what that means can fuck right off though

[georgefairbrother]

This month (April) in 1969, the BBC reported on a surprising by-election result;

“…A 21-year-old woman, Bernadette Devlin, has become Britain’s youngest ever female MP and the third youngest MP ever…Standing as an independent Unity candidate, Miss Devlin wrested the seat of Mid-Ulster in Northern Ireland from the Ulster Unionists…”

She had grown up in a working class family of six children, and both parents had died by the time she was a teenager, forcing her to balance furthering her education while taking care of her younger siblings.

Bogside 1969 (image BBC News)

Having been arrested and subsequently imprisoned for her role in the Battle of the Bogside, violent sectarian protests in Derry in August of that year, she was re-elected at the UK general election in 1970 and served one full term.

Following Bloody Sunday, she (literally) smacked Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in the face for asserting in the House of Commons that the behaviour of members of the the British Parachute Regiment, (which had killed 14 civilians and wounded at least a further 15 during street protests in Derry), had been justified on the grounds of acting in self-defence. Devlin had personally witness these events.

Having not sought re-election in 1974, she remained active politically, supporting the cause of the hunger strikers in 1981 and standing unsuccessfully for seats in the European Parliament and the Dail Eirreann (Parliament of the Irish Republic).

On January 16th, 1981, the BBC reported:

“…The Northern Ireland civil rights campaigner and former Westminster MP, Bernadette McAliskey (formerly Devlin) has been shot by gunmen who burst into her home…The three men shot Mrs McAliskey, in the chest, arm and thigh as she went to wake up one of her three children. Her husband, Michael, was also shot twice at point blank range…Three men are now being questioned by police. They were arrested by members of the Parachute Regiment, who were on patrol nearby when they heard the shots…The McAliskeys were flown by army helicopter to hospital in Belfast, where their condition is said to be serious, but not life-threatening…”

(Irish news sources claim that the British soldiers were 'watching the home' but did not intervene).

The BBC also reported that Loyalist paramilitaries were going after those who were campaigning for H Block prison reform, in the heightened tensions surrounding hunger strikes over demands for ‘prisoner of war’ status by Republicans in custody. Four campaign activists had been killed to that point.

Bernadette McAliskey continued to advocate for civil rights in Northern Ireland, and for inmates and former inmates of the Maze Prison. She later founded the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme, a community welfare organisation, now listed as a resource on the UK government family support webpage for Northern Ireland, researching and campaigning in areas such as housing, family support, civil rights, and the welfare of migrant workers.

Top image and additional material from the website of herstory.ie

#derry #bloody sunday #the troubles #northern ireland #uk politics #protest #civil rights #activism #bogside #uk government #house of commons

[brendanjharkin]

The National Demonstration for Palestine Dublin, 13th January 2024

There are some things that aren't hard to ask for Joe Biden is an enabler of genocide. Joe Biden overrides what democratic processes exist in the United States to personally sign off on billions of dollars for the purpose of genocide in Gaza. Who? Who in their right mind and conscience, on the national day of a country that freed itself from oppression, would go to America and hand the bastard a bunch of feckin' shamrocks? It's not much to ask. ... So I say to the people of Palestine: We stand with you. As long as you endure and resist, we will endure and resist with you. And as Padraig Pearse said, to the State of Israel and I say it to the government of Ireland: Did you think to conquer the people? Did you think that your law was stronger than life, and people's desire to be free? No. We will have it out with you. Ye that have bullied and bribed. Ye who have tortured… and broken. Tyrants. Hypocrites. Liars. Free Palestine! - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

#dublin #ireland #palestine #gaza #politics #photography

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1969 – Bernadette Devlin, a newly elected MP, made a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons.

I understand that in making my maiden speech on the day of my arrival in Parliament and in making it on a controversial issue I flaunt the unwritten traditions of the House, but I think that the situation of my people merits the flaunting of such traditions. I remind the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Chichester-Clark) that I, too, was in the Bogside area on the night that he was there. As the…

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#22nd Birthday #Bernadette Devlin #Bernadette Devlin McAliskey #British House of Commons #Controversial Speech #MP

[garadinervi]

Susan Greene, La Lucha Continua / The Struggle Continues, a collaboration with Freedom Archives, 3260 23rd St – between Mission and Capp Streets, San Francisco, CA, originally painted in 1985, then restored by Susan Greene, post-2003

Portraits: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Aristide, Judi Bari, Soha Bechara, Maurice Bishop, Madame Binh, Marilyn Buck, Sitting Bull, César Chávez, Rachel Corrie, Bernadette Devlin, Frantz Fanon, Ghandi, Emma Goldman, Che Guevara, Handala, Joe Hill, Dolores Huerta, Frida Kahlo, Leila Khaled, Martin Luther King Jr., Lolita Lebrón, Audre Lorde, Patrice Lumumba, Rosa Luxemburg, Farabundo Martí, José Martí, Rigoberta Menchú, Leonard Peltier, Archbishop Óscar Romero, Edward W. Said, Augusto César Sandino, Assata Shakur, Harriet Tubman, Pancho Villa, Malcolm X, Sofia Yamaika, Emiliano Zapata

Photos: (1) Freedom Archives; (2-3) Wally Gobetz/Flickr; (4) SFGATE

#art #susan greene #the freedom archives #1980s #2000s

[mariemariemaria]

“The North has the most millionaires per capita outside London but the people who suffered the most, who were promised their lives would change, are still suffering terrible poverty. The Good Friday agreement was great but when you buy into neoliberal economic structures, you’re going to see massive disparities of wealth. It’s a very dysfunctional statelet. How many years have we had a government in 25 years? Sectarianism doesn’t exist the way it used to but it has been institutionalised. A lot of people are disillusioned.” — Michael Magee

#northern ireland #most millionaires per capita??? hello??? where the hell are they??? i want their postcodes for no reason in particular #this + bernadette devlin's 2016 seamus deane lecture

[itchy-9884]

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

–Bernadette Devlin

[thesunsethour]

hozier changing the lyrics of Nina Cried Power in Dublin to include Bernadette after Bernadette Devlin McAliskey ❤️✊

#i’m also convinced i heard Collins cried power but don’t quote me #hozier

[werewolfetone]

EDIT let me clarify that while the 1st option is For Class I don't like. NEED to read it RIGHT NOW. in case that influences the voting

#polls #jory.txt

[victusinveritas]

Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

This piece on a documentary on her is worth a read. She's rightfully a legend.

And this interview with Blindboy is great.

#the troubles #ireland #irish studies #resistance #civil rights #free derry #blindboy #blindboy boatclub