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Bernadette Devlin, 23-year-old Catholie spitfire whose jailing on charges of inciting to riot was the immediate cause of current troubles, was out of action. But there was no lack of troublemakers. Protestant Extremist Ian Paisley and 30 followers demonstrated at England's Canterbury Cathedral, carrying placards that read JESUS SAVES-ROME ENSLAVES. At the cathedral, a Catholic mass was being conducted as an unprecedented ecumenical gesture. Meanwhile, the Republic of Ireland's Minister for External Affairs, Dr. Patrick J. Hillery, slipped quietly across Ulster's border to tour Belfast's battened-down Catholic districts...
...time the Irish Free State was created. Irregulars on both sides-the proscribed Irish Republican Army and the Protestant Ulster Volunteer Forces-have been running guns into Northern Ireland. When the current round of riots began two weekends ago, ostensibly over the jailing of Catholic Leader Bernadette Devlin for six months on charges of rioting and inciting to riot, both sides were very well prepared...
...trouble was touched off by the jailing of Catholic Spitfire Bernadette Devlin, 23, who was re-elected as an independent to Parliament only two weeks ago. Bernadette had been sentenced to six months in prison for her part in last summer's riots, but was free pending a petition that her case be appealed to the House of Lords. When the petition was denied by a Belfast court, she was arrested on her way to a political meeting and taken to jail...
Eammon McCann, radical Labour Party leader from Derry, Northern Ireland, arrived in New York last week and presented the keys to New York City to the Black Panther Party. Mayor John Lindsay had given the keys to Bernadette Devlin when she was in New York last fall. Angered at her treatment by American politicians, she decided to send the keys to the Panthers in the spirit of international solidarity...
Women fought alongside men at the barricades. In fact, Bernadette Devlin was one of the few members of the Defense Committee to fight in the streets. In Northern Ireland, men are often unemployed while their wives work, a situation which McCann says tends to reverse sex roles. Women were therefore very insistent on participating in the fighting...