Bernadette: Notes on a Political Journey 2011
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Documentary on the remarkable political life of Irish Republican human rights activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey who, at the age of 21, was Britain’s youngest elected female MP. More
"A member of the People's Democracy movement in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, Devlin was elected MP for Mid-Ulster when she was 21 years-old and still a student, and briefly rattled the Wilson government and the Westminster establishment. She witnessed the Bloody Sunday massacre, and went on to co-found the Irish Republican Socialist Party, only to leave it soon afterwards. She survived an assassination and her family suffered harrassment for years beyond that. The archive footage presents her as a firebrand with a gift for public speaking, derided as 'Castro in a miniskirt' by one opponent. Now into her 60s, she remains just as articulate and uncompromising." (London Film Festival) Hide
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