Bernadette McAliskey, who as Bernadette Devlin was a political figurehead in Northern Ireland 50 years ago, has said she wouldn’t vote in a border poll to join the Republic which she calls the Free ...

This remarkable documentary, made over a nine year period, charts the story of Bernadette Devlin McAliskey’s political journey since her explosive entry into the public arena in the late sixties.

On a platform, she appears slightly hunched, her reddish-brown hair tumbling over her shoulders, gray-blue eyes flashing. She speaks in a rapid monotone. The words that tumble out are impassioned, ...

Her sponsors did not even know that she was coming until she was in the air over the North Atlantic, but no matter. Diminutive Bernadette Devlin, at 22 the youngest member of Britain’s House of ...