Bernadette: One women's journey from mass protest to hunger strikes to the peace process

andrew
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:26:04 +0000
Bloody Sunday, NICRA, Peace process, Republicanism, Imperialism, Repression, Ulster, Opinion, Review, Andrew N Flood

The end of the 1960’s in northern Ireland were a unique time when, as elsewhere around the world, mass popular protest emerged onto the streets with ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The unique circumstances of northern Ireland and the particular form the state backlash took there resulted in a military conflict that lasted some 30 years and dominated politics on the entire island and to a much lesser extent in Britain. Although tens if not hundreds of thousands of people made this history it can also be told as the history of some of the prominent individuals involved, including the Irish republican socialist activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.