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 the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Ulster in Northern Ireland from a 1969 by-election until February 1974. McAliskey came to national and international prominence at the age of 21 when she became the youngest woman ever (at that time) to become a British Member of Parliament. McAliskey broke with the traditional Irish republican policy of abstentionism and took her seat in Westminster.
McAliskey's term as an MP began at the outbreak of the Troubles, the ethno-nationalist conflict which would come to dominate Northern Ireland for the next 30 years. For the majority of that time, McAliskey was politically active, advocating for a 32-county socialist Irish republic to replace the two states on the island of Ireland. Originally linked to the People's Democracy group, McAliskey was later a founder of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. However, McAliskey left the party after a year when members voted that its paramilitary wing, the Irish National Liberation Army, did not have to obey the political wing.
McAliskey continued to be politically active, such as during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was during this period when she and her husband survived an assassination attempt by undercover members of the Ulster Defence Association, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary. She was shot nine times by gunmen in front of her children before being taken by helicopter to hospital for emergency treatment.
Since 1997 McAliskey has worked as the head of the South Tyrone Empowerment Programme, an NGO based in Dungannon which focuses on community development.
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Date: 23 April 1947
By RAYMOND DANIELLspecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Govt suspends 2 opposition newspapers for pub of anti-Adm s; other suspensions noted
Date: 23 April 1947
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
comm authorized to inspect publishing cos' books and premises
Date: 23 April 1947
Asst Sec Benton calls '48 fiscal yr budget request inadequate
Date: 23 April 1947
Mutual Broadcasting System exec says dismissal of liberal commentators is due to loss of wartime audiences, CCNY Radio and Business conf; claims 7 out of 10 top natl commentators are liberal
Date: 24 April 1947
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Receptions held for Mex press, Mexico City, in connection with US and Mex Presidents visits
Date: 24 April 1947
message on ANPA journalism contest awards
Date: 24 April 1947
poetry theme contest winners announced, NYC
Date: 24 April 1947
Yale & Towne Mfg Co introduces Tip Toe elec iron
Date: 23 April 1947
By RUSSELL PORTER
Russell PORTER
Illus at Assoc Press meeting