Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Fresh out of jail, the member for Mid-Ulster wore a bright red pantsuit to Britain's House of Commons for her swearing-in ceremony. Bernadette Devlin, who calls the destruction of the established order "my way of life," said she'd go a-rioting no more. Declared the young woman who was convicted of inciting to riot: "Rioting is an ineffective way of trying to gain one's ends." How about democratic means? "I am in Parliament," said Devlin, "with the intention of using it for my own ends...
...book jacket of Orr on Ice says that it is a book about Orr's style of hockey. Setting your own style by age 22 can be a cool thing: the Beatles did it, so did Bernadette Devlin...
Northern Ireland's politics will never be the same again. The word out of Armagh jail was that Bernadette Devlin, serving a six-month term for inciting riots, had taken up the peaceful craft of crocheting under the tutelage of a convicted murderess. Furthermore, when a fellow Member of Parliament, Ulster's Ivan Cooper, visited Bernadette, he found her surprisingly subdued. "In her political comments, she's a good deal more tolerant than when she went to prison," Cooper observed, "and her temper is much better than it is normally...
...case, no one was seriously injured, and an hour and a half later, M.P.s were back on their benches. Before long they resumed, discussion, appropriately, on a point of order concerning the swearing-in of the House's youngest member, Firebrand Bernadette Devlin, 23, now serving a six-month jail sentence in Armagh, Northern Ireland, for rioting and inciting to riot during last summer's disturbances in Ulster. Hansard, the official parliamentary record, took note of the bombing with a single word: "Interruption...
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...