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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.
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.
Sep 10, 2023 · Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. A former MP for Mid-Ulster, she was elected at 21 and was the youngest woman elected to Westmin-ster until 2015, Mrs. McAliskey was one of the key players in the civil rights movement.
- Victoria Johnston
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.
In 1974, she became active in the Irish Socialist Republican Party for a short time and in 1979; she stood in support of the republican prisoners in the European elections, winning 6% of the vote. She and her husband, Michael McAliskey, were shot and badly wounded by loyalist gunmen at their home in 1981.
