Irish nationalist says unity at hand
By Brooks Dareff
Of the Emerald
Ireland will be united within 30 years, predicts
Irish nationalist Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey.
Speaking at the EMU Ballroom Wednesday night,
Devlin-McAliskey said that unification of the six nor
thern provinces with the Republic of Ireland will be
achieved by "the most peaceful means available and
by any means neccessary."
Intimating that the Catholic minority were
prepared to fight fire with fire, she said "the eleventh
commandment is thou shalt not win."
The elimination of British control in Northern
Ireland is inevitable, she said, because the escalating
cycle of oppression and resistance, which is the pat
tern of political activity in Northern Ireland, serves to
strengthen both the numbers and the commitment
of the oppressed.
She said this cycle of oppression also operates in
El Salvador, Poland, Chile and Grenada. The British,
she said, try to obscure identification of the Irish with
other oppressed peoples by offering religion, rather
than the subjugation of an entire people, as the root
of the problem.
She offered a warning to the United States, in
their "globe galloping" — take heed of the example
of former world power Britain.
In the U.S. invasion of Grenada Devlin-McAliskey
said she sees a re-enactment of the British occupa
tion of Northern Ireland in the late 1960's — an oc
cupation which continues to this day.
In her talks both in the Ballroom and to reporters
in the Forum Room earlier Wednesday, Devlin
McAliskey traced the escalation of oppression in
Northern Ireland, and with it, the deterioration of
"every concept of law."
The court system established in the 1970’s, which
she said is political in everything but name, abolish
ed juries, the right to remain silent, the prosecution's
burden of proof, and the right of the defense to
know and cross-examine all of the accusers.
The government, she said, offers financial com
pensation and relocation to South Africa to anyone
offering to participate in what the British call, "the
phenomenon of the converted terrorist."
"We call it the phenomenon of the perjury
trials."
Devlin-McAliskey said Britain created new laws
to criminalize "the struggle."
Crimes like murder and rape are tried in a
separate court, and are considered normal crimes,
lesser than "crimes against the state."
For those she identifies as political prisoners, the
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Photo by Brun Erb
Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey vowed the
unification of Ireland would be achieved within
30 years.
average time of internment without trial is 18
months.
Most people receive 25-30 year sentences, and 33
percent receive life sentences.
Devlin-McAliskey said people outside of Ireland,
especially in the United States, misunderstand
Ireland "as some peculiar mystical quirk in the Celtic
twilight."
Instead, she said, their cause connects them to
all oppressed people.
The Irish have a link with blacks, she said,
because they too were sold into slavery and sent to
all corners of the globe — Tasmania, Australia "as far
away as they could send us" — and to the American
Indian, because their language, music and economy
were taken away from them.
The current struggle in Northern Ireland was in
spired by the civil rights movement in the United
States, she said.
"When Martin Luther King spoke of his dream,
we were not a bunch of white people who were
liberal, we were a bunch of people who dreamed the
same dream he spoke of."
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