Northern Ireland — Politics and government.

  • Washington Report: March 6, 1972

    Washington Report: March 6, 1972. Interview with Dr. Rona Fields, an American psychologist who is the first American psychologist to visit the Long Kesh internment camp in Northern Ireland. She describes the physical and psychological torture present in the camps. Includes subsequent report on House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearings on Ireland. Program is self-contained.

  • Bernadette Devlin speaking at Barnard College (Part 1 only)

    Bernadette Devlin [McAliskey] speaks at Barnard College on November 20, 1976. This is Part 1 of 2. Tape of Part 2 is missing. Devlin was on tour in the U.S. to educate and state her point of view on “the Irish problem”. She outlines the history (from 1920) of the struggle of Ireland to separate…

  • Bernadette Devlin speech on Northern Ireland

    Bernadette Devlin (b. 1947), a leader of the Catholic Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s, gives a speech about the recent history of Northern Ireland since its creation in the 1920’s. She also gives a history of religious conflict and the women’s peace movement in Northern Ireland. Introduced by Mark Weiss.

  • Bernadette Devlin / interviewed by Tom Curtis.

    KPFT’s News Director Tom Curtis interviewed Irish Catholic militant Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) while in Houston to speak at the University of Houston about Northern Ireland. She discusses the struggles there and what Americans can do. Includes phone calls. Recorded by Tom Curtis, edited by Tracy German.

  • Bernadette Devlin speaks at LeConte School with a short interview by Hal Levin.

    Bernadette Devlin (McAliskey) (1947 – ), Northern Irish revolutionary and member of the British Parliament, speaks at a gathering sponsored by the International Socialists of Berkeley. Her talk is followed by a question and answer session and the final portion of this program is a short interview with Devlin conducted by Hal Levin of KPFA…