Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ireland has been plagued by bombings and riots since the deaths of the 13 Londonderry civilians. Last Sunday about 20,000 pro-Roman Catholic demonstrators, led by Bernadette Devlin, a member of the British Parliament, defied a ban on parades and marched down the streets of Newry to protest the deaths
...protests turned into bloody riots. Mobs of Protestants marched through the Catholic ghettos of Londonderry and Belfast, burning and beating, while the Royal Ulster Constabulary and dreaded Protestant "B special" police auxiliary forces either participated or looked the other way. The riots and their aftermath brought Firebrand Reformer Bernadette Devlin to the fore as an eloquent spokesman for Catholic rights. The troubles also brought to Ulster brigades of British troops, who were at first welcomed as protectors by Catholics offering tea and sympathy...
...Protestants, who placed the British-sponsored round-table talks in jeopardy. Both of the province's two main opposition parties rejected any such meeting until the Protestant-dominated Stormont government rescinds the internment of 250 Catholic militants who have been jailed without trial for over a month. Bernadette Devlin, who was back on the political stump for the first time since her daughter was born out of wedlock three weeks ago, declared she had "no intention of discussing anything with Maudling until every last man who is at present interned has been released." But one leading Catholic moderate condemned...
Born. To Bernadette Devlin, 24, Irish Catholic firebrand from the barricades of Bogside, who now has the dual distinction of being both the youngest member of Britain's Parliament and its first unwed mother: her first child, a daughter. Though still refusing to name the father, Bernadette bubbled, "I'm just like any other mother-I think my baby's beautiful...
...Catholic women and girls marched up from the raw new apartments of the Bogside to the ancient city walls. They chanted, "Oh we hate the British soldiers, yes we do, yes we do," lifting the hats of British sentries as they marched past. The demonstration was organized by Bernadette Devlin, who as a representative from Mid-Ulster is the youngest Member of Parliament at Westminster. Bernadette, 23, was too pregnant (by a man she has refused to name) to march, so she rode in a loudspeaker car. Her political stock has clearly been lifted by the crisis...