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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.
Bernadette McAliskey, now 69, has never been one for the niceties of establishment politics. Indeed, beloved by many as she is, as a socialist, feminist and elder stateswoman of...
Jul 19, 2022 · Learn about the life and activism of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a civil rights leader and former MP who co-founded the People's Democracy and the Irish Republican Socialist Party. She survived a shooting attack by the UDA and campaigned for social justice and equality in Tyrone.
Aug 17, 2022 · 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. She...
Dec 28, 2021 · 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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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.
A relative silence surrounded Bernadette Devlin McAliskey in the last decade of the 20th century, but it was a silence which deepened her mystique and copperfastened her image as the popular champion of nationalist Derry during the ferment of 1969–70.
