Bernadette McAliskey in 1969
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J Sully writes:
This Thursday night sees a Special screening of the IFTA-winning film Bernadette ‘Notes on a Political Journey’ (2011) followed by Q and A with the film’s director Lelia Doolan afterwards as a fundraiser for The Countess Markievicz School. Tickets €10 at The Mart, Rathmines Road, Rathmines, Dublin 6. Event is BYOB.
The Countess Markievicz School was founded in 2011 by a group of graduates of the School of Social Justice in UCD who were ‘concerned about the declining number of women in public and political life in Ireland’. The school provides a discussion forum on women in honour of Ireland’s first MP and Cabinet Minister….
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What, no free tickets? I’ll swap you a Russell Brand for a Bernadette.
you might meet some revolutionary firebrand full of passion…
If this is the documentary that was on TG4 a year or so ago it’s a superb production.
I’m waiting for the live album
How come Bernadette Devlin has never being confered with Honours from
a University, A Freewoman of Belfast/Derry/Dublin or Nominated to the
Senate, she certainly did the Nation some Service.
Perhaps Gerry might develop the YES to equality concept in a unique way.