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'''Josephine Bernadette McAliskey''' (née '''Devlin'''; born 23 April 1947), usually known as '''Bernadette Devlin''' or '''Bernadette McAliskey''', is an Irish civil rights leader and former politician.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Miss Bernadette Devlin (Hansard)|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/miss-bernadette-devlin/index.html|access-date=2021-05-11|website=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|archive-date=18 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180618075847/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/miss-bernadette-devlin/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She served as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Mid Ulster (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Ulster]] in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1974. McAliskey came to national and international prominence at the age of 21 when she became the youngest person ever (at that time) to become a member of the British Parliament. McAliskey broke the traditional [[Irish republican]] policy of [[abstentionism]] and took her seat in Westminister. McAliskey's ascension came at the outbreak of [[the Troubles]], an ethno-nationalist conflict which would come to dominate Northern Ireland for the next 30 years. For the majority of that time, McAliskey would be politically active, advocating for a 32-
McAliskey continued to be politically active, such as during the [[1981 Irish hunger strike]]. It was during this period when she and her husband survived an assassination attempt by undercover members of the [[Ulster Defence Association]], an [[Ulster loyalist]] paramilitary.
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