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Devlin was studying Psychology at Queen's University Belfast in 1968 when she took a prominent role in a student-led civil rights political party called People's Democracy. She opposed James Chichester-Clark in the Northern Ireland general election of 1969. When the MP for Mid-Ulster died, she fought the by-election and was elected to Parliament at the age of 21. She is the youngest woman ever to be elected to the British parliament. Breaking with tradition she made her highly-praised maiden speech within an hour of taking her seat.
However, her radical left-wing politics, coupled with her anti-clericalism, neither of which had been very obvious prior to her election, proved controversial. She was convicted of incitement to riot in December 1969 and served a short jail term. After being re-elected in the 1970 general election Devlin declared that she would sit in Parliament as an Independent Socialist, though she recognised that many of those who had voted for her would not support such a stance.
Devlin punched Reginald MaudlingReginald Maudling ( March 7, 1917 February 14, 1979) was a British politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer at the end of the Conservative Governments of the 1960s. Maudling might have become Prime Minister but for his defeat for the party lea, the Home SecretaryThe Secretary of State for the Home Department (the Home Secretary is the chief United Kingdom government minister responsible for law and order in the United Kingdom; his or her remit includes policing, the criminal justice system, the prison service, in in the ConservativeThe Conservative Party is the largest centre right political party in the United Kingdom. It is descended from the Tory Party and its members are still commonly referred to as Tories''. It votes with the European People's Party bloc in the European Parlia government, when he made a statement to Parliament on Bloody Sunday supporting the army line that it had fired only in self-defence. She married Michael McAliskey on April 23, 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led, by whom she had become pregnant in 19711971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). Events January January 1 British divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. Janua; her pregnancy out of wedlock had lost her some support. In the February 1974 general election she was opposed by other Nationalist candidates and lost her seat.
McAliskey helped to form the Irish Republican Socialist Party in 1975 and attacked the Peace People as dishonest in 1976. As an independent candidate, she polled poorly in the 1979 elections to the European Parliament. On February 16, 1981 she and her husband were shot and seriously wounded by Loyalist paramilitaries who broke into her home.
Her daughter Róisín was arrested (while five months pregnant) in 1996 on an extradition warrant issued by Germany accusing her of involvement in an Irish Republican Army bombing. After a long campaign in which her mother took a leading role, the Home Secretary Jack Straw vetoed the extradition on health grounds.
McAliskey remains an active commentator and activist on the margins of Northern Irish politics, where she has expressed strong opposition to the Belfast Agreement and to Sinn Féin's entry into government in Northern Ireland. In 2003, she was banned from entering the United States by the administration of George W. Bush under anti-terrorist legislation, though McAliskey protested that she had no terrorist involvement.
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