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	Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey (born April 23, 1947, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to a Catholic nationalist family), also known as Bernadette Devlin and Bernadette McAliskey, is a Northern Ireland republican political activist.
		McAliskey helped to form the Irish Republican Socialist Party in 1974, this was a revolutionary socialist breakaway from Official Sinn Féin and parallelled the Irish National Liberation Army's split from the Official Irish Republican Army.
		McAliskey remains an active commentator and activist on the margins of Northern Irish politics, where she has expressed strong opposition to the Good Friday Agreement and to Sinn Féin's entry into government in Northern Ireland stating that IRA volunteers had not died to create "a common teaching qualification".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernadette_Devlin (923 words)

	Ireland's OWN: Women Freedom Fighters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Renowned Irish civil rights leader, and one of the founding members of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, has been a leader of the North of Ireland freedom struggle since 1968, when she was a student at Queen's University in Belfast.
		In 1969, Bernadette was elected to the British Parliament from Mid-Ulster and, was at age 21, the youngest member of that body.
		Bernadette continues to work to this day for civil liberties and freedom in the North of Ireland, and on human rights issues worldwide.
	irelandsown.net /bernadette.html (377 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| McAliskey attacks 'bullying' of daughter
		Roisin McAliskey is wanted in Germany to face charges in connection with an IRA mortar attack on a British army barracks in Osnabruck in 1996.
		Her mother, Bernadette McAliskey also blamed the collapse of her daughter's physical and mental health on Roisin's treatment at the hands of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
		Bernadette McAliskey responded by challenging the German official to "bring forward what he claims to be evidence against my daughter.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/64300.stm (407 words)

	Ireland's Bernadette Devlin McAliskey deported from the US
		Bernadette McAliskey and her daughter Deirdre were both cleared through US immigration by American INS officials in Dublin, having filled in their visa waivers, and were allowed to board their flight.
		McAliskey said she explained who she was, that she had been travelling to the US for 30 years, that she had been a member of parliament, and that their actions were crazy.
		McAliskey insisted that she had the right to travel freely, that she had human rights and the right to be protected under the US Constitution.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/mar2003/devl-m05.shtml (939 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		McAliskey's willingness to put her life on the line in a hunger strike protest on behalf of Irish political prisoners won her a worldwide audience in 1979.
		McAliskey ran as an independent, "cast her first vote for herself" and served two terms, said Ann Lane, U.Va. professor of history and director of women's studies, in her introduction of Ms.
		McAliskey received the "long brown envelope" that recognized her potential and sent her to grammar school, on an elite track to university.
	www.virginia.edu /insideuva/textonlyarchive/94-10-14/7.txt (652 words)

	FREE ROISIN MCALISKEY!
		Bernadette McAliskey denounced moves to extradite her daughter to face charges of participating in an IRA mortar bomb attack on British army barracks last June as being politically motivated.
		Bernadette McAliskey has further alleged that the original arrest and detention "formed part of a systematic pattern of aggressive harassment and intimidation of community groups in West Belfast accompanied by the arrests of young republican women who worked in the area, were computer literate and were vulnerable because of pregnancy or recent childbirth."
		Bernadette McAliskey remains adamant that her daughter was given no assurances on the hand-cuff issue until after the Director General's statement released to the press on 13 February.
	larkspirit.com /roisin/plainbriefing.html (6225 words)

	Interactivist Info Exchange \| Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Barred Entry to the US (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		McAliskey (56) was then photographed, finger-printed and returned to Ireland against her will on the grounds that the State Department had declared that she "poses a serious threat to the security of the United States."
		When the McAliskeys were detained in O'Hare airport, Deirdre says that the INS were also questioning four young men "with Arabic sounding names." She believes that the four were later taken to jail.
		Bernadette McAliskey is now in the process of filing a formal complaint with the US consulate in Dublin.
	slash.autonomedia.org /news/03/02/24/0123228.shtml (796 words)

	Bernadette McAliskey at anti war protest - Indymedia Ireland
		Bernadette who survived a loyalist murder bid, after being shot and left for dead, knows all about the power of the state.
		Bernadette doesn't look a day older, and is alive and healthy, unlike some of the brit establishment military binky old boys who sanctioned and plotted the murder bid against her.
		Bernadette gave a great interview today for the BBC, in which she was asked about the heavy-handedness of the RUC.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?id=41736 (611 words)

	BSI Reports: Week 16: 11 - 14 DECEMBER 2000
		Bernadette McAliskey was a Member of the Westminster Parliament for Mid Ulster in April 1969 and was elected thereafter.
		Mrs McAliskey said that one of the problems she has with the BSI is what she described as ‘corruptive memory.’ Documents do not make it clear that she may not have volunteered any information on a matter at all.
		Mrs McAliskey said that she did not want to come to the BSI and that, to some extent, her own personal position is somewhat compromised by attending because she feeds into what she believes is the confusing of the information.
	www.birw.org /bsireports/21_30/report30.html (9704 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bernadette was then photographed, finger-printed and returned to Ireland against her will on the grounds that the State Department had declared that she posed "a serious threat to the security of the United States".
		Bernadette has been frequent visitor to the US for the past 30 years, although this was her first visit in over 18 months.
		On her first trip, in 1971, the young Bernadette made civil rights history when she refused to be met by Chicago's Mayor Richard J Daly on account of his treatment of opponents of the Vietnam War.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve03/1128devlin.html (463 words)

	Ireland's OWN: Women Freedom Fighters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bernadette McAliskey: Despite the efforts of the Republican Movement, nobody other than the Republican Movement, even now at the virtual completion of the process, identifies the war for what it was.
		Bernadette McAliskey: I have no great favour in Truth Commissions, in the land that Conor Cruise O'Brien said had the highest proportion of conmen and conwomen per square acre.
		Bernadette McAliskey: If you go back to the beginning of the process there was a civil rights process, and the actual demands were actually not republican or to overthrow the state.
	irelandsown.net /McAliskey3.html (3925 words)

	FREE ROISIN MCALISKEY!
		A near-tearful Bernadette McAliskey yesterday said her daughter was "recovering well" from the ordeal while her granddaughter, 10-month-old baby Loinnir, was "in great health".
		Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Róisín was accused of attempted murder, stemming from an IRA mortar attack on a British army barracks.
		As Bernadette McAliskey, the baby's grandmother, described, "Loinnir is a ray of sunshine," she said.
	larkspirit.com /roisin (374 words)

	Chicago Indymedia - webcast news
		Bernadette has always spoken out during her many trips to the United States on behalf of the marginalized and oppressed with the sincerity and depth born of her own community's subjugation.
		Bernadette knows that the American people, in their working class and racially diverse majority, and the US government are two different things with different aspirations.
		Bernadette McAliskey has proven herself a genuine friend and, through her courageous campaign against injustice in Ireland, an inspiration to those in struggle for human rights, social justice and economic equality in the United States.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/34463/20030422/chicago.indymedia.org/front63b3.html?article_id=20307&group=webcast (1688 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 16 \| 1981: Gunmen shoot civil rights campaigner
		The McAliskeys were flown by army helicopter to hospital in Belfast, where their condition is said to be serious, but not life-threatening.
		Bernadette McAliskey was the youngest-ever woman MP when she was elected at the age of 21 in 1969.
		More recently, Mrs McAliskey fought the extradition of her daughter, Roisin, to Germany, where she is wanted for questioning about the IRA bombing of the Osnabruck base in 1996.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/16/newsid_2530000/2530469.stm (430 words)

	Irish Echo Online - News
		According to McAliskey's daughter Deirdre, her mother was threatened with arrest, jail and even being shot, by the officials.
		The younger McAliskey was told she was free to return home or continue her journey in the U.S. She and her mother decided that it was best if she went to New York and told Bernadette's friends and colleagues what had happened.
		McAliskey was a witness to the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972 and she and her husband were seriously injured in an assassination attempt by loyalist paramilitaries in 1981.
	www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=12785 (942 words)

	McAliskey 'will fight election'
		ROISIN McAliskey, the pregnant IRA suspect fighting extradition to Germany, has said she will stand for the same parliamentary seat that her mother, the-then Bernadette Devlin, won as a nationalist in 1969.
		Bernadette McAliskey said: "In the face of the continued refusal of the British court to acknowledge her right to bail and the British administration's.
		Roisin McAliskey was told last week that she would not be separated from her child after the birth and that she would be given a place at Holloway Prison's mother and baby unit.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1997/03/21/nrois21.html (527 words)

	Talk:Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality.
		Nobody disputes that Bernadette was nearly assassinated by loyalists, or more accurately that loyalist hitmen pulled the trigger.
		As for the irony of her life being saved by the British Army, what's more ironic is that these soldiers-- apparently assigned to watch the McAliskey household-- were nowhere to be found when the loyalists were battering the family's door down with a sledgehammer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Bernadette_Devlin_McAliskey (119 words)

	G21 Europe: Irish Eyes
		Roisin McAliskey was arrested and held in custody facing extradition on a warrant from the German government in connection with a mortar attack on a British army base in Germany.
		Roisin McAliskey was subject to frequent strip searches, denied proper medical attention, and suffered threats from the British authorities that she would deliver her child shackled to a prison warden.
		"The charges were dropped" said her mother, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, "as a direct result of the international pressure that was brought to bear which made it impossible for them[the British authorities.] What they had intended to do, I think, was basically use her as a bargining chip in the peace process.
	www.g21.net /irish8.htm (1513 words)

	UK Indymedia - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey: Threat to US Security??? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bernadette was told she was being refused entry because she was illegally using the "Visa Waiver" form knowing she was ineligible because of her conviction for rioting in 1969.
		In a particularly bizarre moment McAliskey, 56, was approached by a junior officer who sat face to face with her and said "Don’t piss my boss off.
		McAliskey said her detention and expulsion from the US was symptomatic of George Bush’s abuse of authority and of the total lack of due process under the guise of national security in their headlong rush to war with Iraq.
	www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/02/55175.html?c=on (822 words)

	Bernadette Devlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bernadette Devlin QuotesBernadette Devlin To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose...
		Ireland's Bernadette Devlin McAliskey deported from the USProminent Irish republican and civil rights activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey was deported from the United States on February 21.
		Bernadette Devlin was released from prison on 21 October having served four...
	irishrepublicanarmy.mailrepublican.com /bernadettedevlin (661 words)

	SAOIRSE Irish Freedom December 1996
		Gareth Peirce representing McAliskey, who is four-and-a-half months pregnant, said there was “considerable concern about her health.” Upon her arrival at Charing Cross police station a doctor was called to examine McAliskey, who stated it was “imperative” she had access to “proper obstetric facilities,” Peirce said.
		McAliskey was remanded in custody until December 13 to Belmarsh prison in London where she is held in a cell in an all-male block.
		McAliskey was arrested by the RUC British police at her parents home in County Tyrone on November 20.
	homepage.eircom.net /~eirenua/1996/dec96/dec9608.htm (3273 words)

	Bernadette Devlin: rebel MP\|16Apr05\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bernadette stood for PD in the Northern Ireland wide election that followed, winning the highest vote among the eight PD candidates.
		Bernadette was pictured in the frontline of the resistance — a stance that saw her jailed a year later.
		Bernadette was addressing the crowds in Derry on 31 January 1972 when the British army’s paratroop regiment opened fire on protesters.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=6234 (1018 words)

	CAIN: People: Biographies of People Prominent During 'the Troubles' - Mc
		Bernadette McAliskey (formerly Bernadette Devlin) was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, and educated at St Patrick's Girls' Academy, Dungannon, and Queen's University Belfast.
		Whilst a student at Queen's, McAliskey became closely involved with the civil rights movement and was a prominent member of the People's Democracy (PD), a radical leftwing group established at the university in late 1968.
		McAliskey's decision was not welcomed by the prisoners and the wider republican movement and they instead urged their supporters to boycott the poll.
	cain.ulst.ac.uk /othelem/people/biography/mcpeople.htm (5392 words)

	Knowing Too Much and Saying It Too Well: Bernadette McAliskey Barred from US - Indymedia Ireland
		Bernadette says that she is lodging complaints and what she wants to know from the Irish government is who is responsible for protecting her rights from abuse by an American official on Irish soil.
		McAliskey said her detention and expulsion from the US was a symptom of President George Bush’s abuse of authority at a time when he was preparing the country for a war on Iraq - all dissenting voices had to be shut down.
		Bernadette said yesterday, "I told them that it has to be two years in jail before you're ineligible to enter the United States.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/30311 (2386 words)

	THE BLANKET * Index: Current Articles
		On February 21, Bernadette McAliskey was barred from entering the United States.
		I arrived in Chicago and Immigration informed me there that on foot of a fax received while I was in the air from Dublin, to the effect that a passenger, Bernadette McAliskey, was on the flight, was ineligible for entry, should be apprehended and returned.
		McAliskey: No, no. Nor was that even an issue, because they didn't know I was me. It's very important that that point is understood.
	lark.phoblacht.net /interviewmcaliskey.html (1030 words)

	S . E . A . - Bernadette McAliskey endorses SEA candidates
		She is in Derry to launch the water charges' campaign non-payment pledge at 2.00pm in the SEA offices.
		McAliskey has been working in mid-Ulster to build a mass non-payment campaign on water charges.
		McAliskey's endorsement comes after the SEA office was visited by Northern Ireland Fire Brigade Union leaders, Jim Barbour and Tony Maguire.
	socialistenvironmentalalliance.org /cgi-bin/sea/aaGreenEndorsement/green0504290bernadette.pl (366 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| 'It has nothing to do with finding the truth'
		According to McAliskey, the focus on individual experience and memory at the inquiry has led to the individual paratroopers who pulled the triggers on Bloody Sunday being 'scapegoated' - when, 'in reality, what happened on Bloody Sunday was a government decision or, if not, a decision taken at the highest level of the military.
		According to McAliskey, for those who, like her, 'started our fighting for civil rights and ended up fighting for national liberation', the conflict was not about 'diversity' or 'sharing out government jobs' or 'getting more Catholics on board' - 'it was about democracy'.
		McAliskey is known for speaking out - not only against the peace process and British government policy in Northern Ireland, but also against the drift of the republican movement and Sinn Fein, whom she accuses of 'delivering the British agenda in the north of Ireland'.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000002D32E.htm (2235 words)

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